ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,315, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenji Aoki (Tokyo) and Kengo Sato (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first roller pair, a second roller pair, an abutment portion, an oblique feeding portion, a detection portion, a moving portion a contact/separation portion, and a control portion. If a first sheet whose length is a first length is conveyed, the control portion causes the moving portion to move the first roller pair, and then causes the first sheet to be conveyed from the first roller...