US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Sheet handling apparatus that handles multiple sheets and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,689, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet handling apparatus that handles multiple sheets and image forming system" was invented by Takuro Mita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bundling mechanism creates a sheet bundle including N sheets including an M-th sheet to be included in a k-th booklet and a first sheet to be included in a k+1-th booklet. The k is an integer from 1 to L-1. The M is not a multiple of N. A adhesion mechanism bonds together a preceding sheet and a subsequent sheet stacked at a stacker, except for the M-th sheet to be included in the k-...