ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,084, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeding apparatus" was invented by Toshiki Ishida (Chiba, Japan) and Wataru Murata (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion, a sheet feeding unit configured to perform a feeding operation, an air separation unit configured to perform a blowing operation, and a control unit configured to execute a sheet feeding control. In the sheet feeding control, in a case where a second number of sheets, separated by the blowing operation but not fed, remains on the sheet supporting portion at an end of a first job, ...