US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 25 for "Booklet making apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,233, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Booklet making apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiro Nakahara (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Kawarago (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazushi Nishikata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A booklet making apparatus includes a pressurizing member configured to oppose a first surface of a sheet bundle, a receiving member configured to oppose a second surface of the sheet bundle opposite to the first surface and nip the sheet bundle together with the pressurizing member, a moving portion configured to move the pressurizing member ...