ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,882, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method of the image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with display of guidance on placing direction of sheet having projected portion" was invented by Masami Hano (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan), Toshiyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Kota Kurokawa (Chiba, Japan), Daisuke Katayama (Chiba, Japan) and Kyohei Kikuchi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a sheet subjected to perforation processing, wherein the sheet includes a projected porti...