US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Feb. 3 for "Lamination processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,696, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lamination processing system" was invented by Yosuke Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Asano (Kanagawa, Japan), Ruki Midorikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Takai (Tokyo) and Kazuki Shimodate (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamination processing system includes a sheet separation device, a lamination fixing device, and a conveyor. The sheet separation device separates a two-ply sheet to insert a sheet medium between two sheets of the two-ply sheet to form an enclosed two-ply sheet. The lamination fixing device includes an inlet po...