ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,579, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet discharging apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Oda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Tagami (Tokyo) and Keisuke Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet discharging apparatus includes a discharging portion, a stacking portion, a moving member configured to move to a first position, a second position, and a third position, a detection portion, and a control portion. In a case where the detection portion detects that the moving member has reached the second position, the control portion controls the discharging portion in a fir...