ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,704, issued on March 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and inspection table" was invented by Mamoru Yorimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a body, an image former to form an image on a recording medium, and an inspection table on which the recording medium is placeable. The inspection table includes a placement surface on which the recording medium, on which the image is formed by the image former, is placeable for inspection of the recording medium, a movement support to movably support the placement surface between a use position and a non...