US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Nov. 3 for "Image forming apparatus with post processing folding and orientation control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,859, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with post processing folding and orientation control" was invented by Satoshi Obata (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor that conveys a sheet, an image forming unit that forms an image on the sheet, a post-processing unit folds the sheet after the image is formed, and a controller that receives a selection including either a first print mode or a second print mode. The controller controls the image forming apparatus to print a document including a first manuscript serving as a first...