US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Aug. 25 for "Sheet feeder, image reading device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,720, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet feeder, image reading device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayumu Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Takai (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Fujii (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryuichi Shirane (Chiba, Japan), Takashi Munakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Kurata (Tokyo) and Sakiko Tomizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeder includes a sheet placement unit to place a sheet, and an indicator indicating a predetermined position at which the sheet is to be set on the sheet placement unit. The...