ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,902, issued on May 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Booklet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures booklet by adhering plurality of sheets" was invented by Yusaku Iwasawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater heats sheets to which a powder adhesive has been applied in a binding margin. A pressing member manufactures a booklet by applying pressure to the sheets. In a first adhesion mode, an application amount of the powder adhesive applied to the binding margin is a first application amount and a heat parameter proportional to an amount of heat applied to the sheets is a ...