ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,722, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masaki Kawaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Katto (Chiba, Japan), Takuya Hayakawa (Saitama, Japan), Hiroshi Sagawa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yutaka Ando (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet support portion supporting a sheet or sheets, a sheet feeding unit for performing a sheet feeding operation, an air sheet-separation unit for performing an air blowing operation, and a control unit for performing sheet feeding control to perform the sheet feeding operation b...