ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,073, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Inspection apparatus for inspecting image on sheet and image forming system that inspects printed image on sheet" was invented by Hiroshi Matsumoto (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus includes a tray, a conveyance member configured to convey a sheet from the tray, a reading sensor configured to read an image on the sheet during a passage of the sheet at a reading position, an inspection unit configured to inspect the image read by the reading sensor, and a controller configured to control, in inspection processing, conveyance of the plural...