US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 18 for "Booklet manufacturing apparatus, booklet manufacturing system, control method, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,717, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Booklet manufacturing apparatus, booklet manufacturing system, control method, and medium" was invented by Hiroshi Kataoka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method is provided for a booklet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures booklets by performing thermocompression bonding on a printing material with a bonding agent image formed at a predetermined site by a bonding agent with thermoplasticity. The method comprises performing thermocompression bonding of the predetermined site of the printing material placed i...