US Patent Issued to Canon on April 14 for "Image forming system and post-processing apparatus for producing booklet by bonding plurality of sheets" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,000, issued on April 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system and post-processing apparatus for producing booklet by bonding plurality of sheets" was invented by Hitoshi Furukawa (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming unit forms a user image and a bonding image formed in a binding margin of a booklet and is for bonding a plurality of sheets forming the booklet. A bonding unit bonds the plurality of sheets by applying heat and pressure to the binding margin of the plurality of sheets. The image forming unit forms the bonding image and forms the user image at a first density on a sheet th...