US Patent Issued to RICOH on May 26 for "Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,318, issued on May 26, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Jun Yamada (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 Yusuke Hirono (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* re...