US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 6 for "Medium processing device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,784, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Medium processing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuusuke Shibasaki (Tokyo), Atsushi Shinoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Hirono (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuuto Tohkaishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Naofumi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Suzuka Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo), Yuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kanako Fujisaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...