ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,071, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Wataru Takahashi (Chiba, Japan) and So Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a rotary member pair, a moving unit configured to move the rotary member pair in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet conveyance direction, an abutment member, an obliquely conveying portion, a detection portion, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute (1) a first mode of controlling the moving unit such that the rotary member pair is moved in t...