ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,589, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Medium processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Atsushi Nunokawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Sachika Tamaki (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 post-processing device, and circuitry. The liquid applier applies liquid to a part of a medium. The liquid applier includes a liquid storage to store the liquid to be applied to the part of the medium. The post-processing device binds a media bundle including the medium to which t...