ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,966, issued on March 31, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet postprocessing device and image forming system including the sheet postprocessing device" was invented by Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan), Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sheet postprocessing device includes a sheet conveyance path, a sheet tray, a carry-in guide, a processing part, a discharge member, a blower device, and an intermediate conveyance pa...