US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 16 for "Medium processing apparatus and image forming system incorporating same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,975, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Medium processing apparatus and image forming system incorporating same" was invented by Kensuke Fukuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasushi Tsuruoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Shohei Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keisuke Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium processing apparatus includes a liquid applier, a binder, a mover, first and second rotators. The first rotator rotates the binder between a first inclined posture and a first parallel posture. The second rotator rotates the liquid applier between ...