US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 8 for "Paper feeding device, paper feeding method, recording medium, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,086, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Paper feeding device, paper feeding method, recording medium, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Katsumi Okada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper feeding device for rotating a roll paper forward and backward to feed the roll paper includes a roller, a sensor, a support, and processing circuitry. The sensor detects a level difference at an end of the roll paper. On the supports, the sensor and the roller are arranged at positions offset from each other in a circumferential direction of the roll paper with respect to a center of the roll pap...