US Patent Issued to Canon Finetech Nisca on May 12 for "Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,879, issued on May 12, was assigned to Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Akira Sugiyama (Yamanashi, Japan), Yuta Gemma (Yamanashi, Japan), Yoshihiko Minagawa (Yamanashi, Japan), Aya Kumagai (Chiba, Japan), Kota Hihara (Yamanashi, Japan), Takashi Saito (Yamanash, Japan) and Fumihide Sakamoto (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A staple-less binding unit 27 is disposed between a front cover 121 and a sheet stacking table 16, and an insertion port 110 is formed on a first surface 121a of the front cover 121 so that manual binding by the staple-le...