ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,467, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet conveying device and image processing apparatus including sheet conveying device" was invented by Mizue Kadobayashi (Osaka, Japan), Koji Fujii (Osaka, Japan), Yukio Tanisaki (Osaka, Japan), Ryo Kawaoka (Osaka, Japan) and Takafumi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device according to this disclosure includes a conveying tray onto which a sheet is loaded, a conveying mechanism, a raising and lowering mechanism, a raising and lowering control portion, a sensor, a first determination processing portion, and...