US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 28 for "Sheet characteristic detection device and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,118, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Sheet characteristic detection device and image forming system" was invented by Satoshi Ogata (Hachioji, Japan), Hitoshi Asano (Toyokawa, Japan) and Yumiko Izumiya (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet characteristic detection device includes a first conveyance path on which a sheet is conveyed, a second conveyance path that is branched from the first conveyance path and on which a sheet to be purged is conveyed without passing through an image former, and a first detector that is disposed on the first conveyance path and allows detection of sheet...