US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 21 for "Post-processing device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,586, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Post-processing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Eri Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Fukamachi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Kawano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Mizuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Izumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-processing device includes: a loading section that has a loading surface directed obliquely upward and in which a recording medium is loaded on the loading surface in a state where one end of the recording medium is directed downward; a supporting section that supports the one end of the ...