US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,233, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Seiji Yokoyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A booklet generation apparatus capable of generating a booklet without contaminating a layered booklet. In a case where a determination unit determines that there is an image in a region of a front cover of the (k+1)th booklet or a rear cover of the k-th booklet that is to be heated and pressurized by the bonding unit, a conveyance unit is caused to convey a sheet bundle without including a sheet to be included in the (k+1)th booklet from the f...