US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 28 for "Laminating system, laminating apparatus, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,673, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Laminating system, laminating apparatus, and recording medium" was invented by Tatsuya Kitaguchi (Fussa, Japan) and Mikihiro Yamakawa (Kodaira, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminating system includes: a laminator that performs a laminating process by overlaying a film on a plurality of sheets conveyed; and a hardware processor that, before the laminating process, adjusts an interval between sheets, the interval varying in an image former, such that a leading end and a trailing end of the sheets conveyed from the image former are superposed or the interval...