ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,403, issued on April 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Conveyance device that conveys sheets with different specifications" was invented by Shikitaro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshitaka Tokoro (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance device includes a supply tray, a body, a linear conveyance path, a folded conveyance path, and a straight path discharge portion. The supply tray supplies a sheet. The sheet is supplied to the body from the supply tray. The linear conveyance path is provided in the supply tray and the body. The folded conveyance path branches to one side from the linear...