ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,719, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kengo Sato (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion, a feed roller, a first conveyance roller pair for conveying the sheet and moving the sheet in a lateral direction, a second conveyance roller pair, disposed upstream of the first conveyance roller pair, for conveying the sheet and moving the sheet in the lateral direction, and a control unit. The control unit can execute a first mode for conveying a first sheet, the first mode bein...