US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 29 for "Image forming device and image forming method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,491, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming device and image forming method" was invented by Masahide Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device includes a first discharging device configured to discharge a first active energy curing composition (1) containing a first (meth)acrylic amide compound (A) having a (meth)acrylic group and a first polymerization initiator (C) to a medium, a first exposing device configured to expose the first active energy curing composition (1) applied to the medium to first active energy, and a second discharging device configured t...