ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,081, issued on July 14, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Laminating system, recording medium, and laminating device" was invented by Kenichi Yamada (Higashiyamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminating system includes: a sheet feeder that feeds a plurality of cut sheets; a continuous conveyor that conveys the cut sheets fed by the sheet feeder without any interval between the cut sheets; a laminator that executes laminating processing and attaches a laminate film to a target sheet among the cut sheets conveyed by the continuous conveyor; and a hardware processor that causes the sheet feeder to feed one or mor...