ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,681, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet conveying device, image forming apparatus, and operation control method capable of suppressing occurrence of problems relating to pair of conveying members used for sheet position correction" was invented by Kohei Ishido (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device includes a sensor, a movement control portion, a detection processing portion, and a switching processing portion. The sensor detects a position in a width direction of a sheet conveyed by a pair of conveying members. The movement control portion controls...