US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Aug. 12 for "Folding apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,646, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Folding apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yoshiaki Tetsu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folding apparatus includes: a folding unit configured to fold a recording medium at an intermediate portion in a transport direction of the recording medium; an upstream roller pair disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium with respect to the folding unit, and configured to transport the folded recording medium toward the folding unit with a fold as a leading end; and a downstream rolle...