ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,685, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet conveying device conveying sheet ejected from image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Kotani (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device includes: a sheet conveyance path that receives a long sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus and allows the long sheet to be further conveyed; a turnover conveyance path that diverges from the sheet conveyance path, receives the long sheet conveyed from the sheet conveyance path to turn over the long sheet, and allows the turned-over long sheet to be further conv...