US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Image forming system for controlling discharge of sheet on which image has been inspected" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,088, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system for controlling discharge of sheet on which image has been inspected" was invented by Keisuke Kitajima (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A length, in a lengthwise direction, of a sheet to be inspected by an inspection unit may be longer than a length of a conveyance path between a branch position corresponding to an initial branch path in a plurality of branch paths and a reading position of a reading apparatus. The sheet inspected by the inspection unit is not discharged to a stacking unit corresponding to the initial branch path, and is dis...