ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,113, issued on July 28, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, method for processing information relating to sheet, and recording medium" was invented by Akinori Kimata (Toyokawa, Japan), Takahiro Tsujimoto (Toyokawa, Japan), Noriyuki Jinbo (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Natsuyo Ida (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a sheet along a conveyance path; a detector that is disposed on the conveyance path and detects a physical property of a sheet with first detection accuracy or second detection accuracy lower than the first detection accurac...