ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,915, issued on June 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Detection system and inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Masahiko Mizuno (Osaka, Japan) and Shunsuke Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system includes a detection target device and a detection device. The detection target device includes a first rotating member rotatable about a first axis, and repeats an operation corresponding to a rotation angle of the first rotating member every time the first rotating member makes a 1/N rotation, N being an integer of 2 or greater. The detection device includes a secon...