ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,694, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming system and sheet processing apparatus" was invented by Kenichirou Isobe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a sheet processing apparatus having a stacking unit, a moving unit, and a thermal compression bonding unit. The stacking unit includes a stack of plural sheet having an adhesive layer for bonding the plural sheets together. The thermal compression bonding unit includes a heating member having a heat generation area. In a case where a length of the adhesive layer regarding a longer-...