US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 27 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,861, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Er Sin Khoo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a cutting device, and a mover. The image former forms an image on a front surface of a sheet and ejects the sheet from an ejection port in a first direction. The cutting device includes a first support, a cutter, and a cutter mover. The first support supports a portion of the sheet hanging down from the ejection port of the image former in a vertical direction intersecting the first direction, the first support support...