US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION on May 5 for "Sheet feeder, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,640, issued on May 5, was assigned to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP. (Tokyo).

"Sheet feeder, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Joji Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Haruhiko Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ai Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeder includes: multiple sheet feeding trays each configured to house one or more print media sheets; and a processor configured to cause a sheet feeding tray assigned a top priority to feed a print media sheet after the sheet feeding tray is set up for sheet feeding and a state of the sheet fee...