ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,075, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet processing unit that switches transport destination of sheet" was invented by Satoru Yonemoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing unit includes a postprocessing apparatus and a sorting device. The postprocessing apparatus performs postprocessing on a printed sheet. The sorting device is removably attached to the postprocessing apparatus, and sorts the printed sheet to a predetermined tray. The postprocessing apparatus includes a postprocessing device and a processing destination switch guide. The postprocessing...