US Patent Issued to RICOH on June 23 for "Inspection production control mechanism" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,640, issued on June 23, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Inspection production control mechanism" was invented by Scott R. Johnson (Boulder, Colo.), Samuel Hopper (Boulder, Colo.), Minh Vo (Boulder, Colo.) and Kenneth Shouldice (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store inspection logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the inspection logic to capture a page image of a print job page printed on a print medium, determine a page identifier (page ID) value on the page image, det...