ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,509, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet carrier device and image forming system for determining whether there is sheet located at tearing jam place when jam occurs" was invented by Junta Maenishi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet carrier device includes a sheet carrying passage, roller pairs, a sheet detection device, and a control device. The sheet carrying passage includes a part configured as a drawable drawer device. The roller pairs carry a sheet along the sheet carrying passage. The sheet detection device detects whether there is the sheet which is being ca...