ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,395, issued on April 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Feeding device and image forming system including same" was invented by Satoshi Ando (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes a set plate, a feeding unit, a fan, a heater, a control unit and a temperature and humidity sensor. When the control unit receives a feeding start command, if the sheet to be fed by the feeding unit is coated paper, the control unit performs condition determination processing to determine whether an internal environment satisfies a predetermined condition. When the control unit determines th...