US Patent Issued to Canon on April 7 for "Sheet property measurement device and image forming apparatus including sheet property measurement device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,145, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet property measurement device and image forming apparatus including sheet property measurement device" was invented by Ryuichi Araki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet property measurement device includes a passage configured to allow a sheet to be manually inserted thereinto; a reading sensor configured to read a surface of the sheet inserted into the passage; a detection unit having a displacement member configured to be brought into contact with the sheet downstream of a reading position of the reading sensor in an insertion direction in which the s...