US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 17 for "Sheet processing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,632, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Yusuke Hirono (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuusuke Shibasaki (Tokyo), Atsushi Shinoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuuto Tohkaishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Suzuka Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan), Naofumi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo), Yuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kanako Fujisaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* rel...