ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,857, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Binding processing device, image forming system, binding processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording program" was invented by Masashi Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhide Inaba (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Ogino (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuhiro Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Taichi Fuchu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takumi Uegane (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding processing device includes: a binding processing element that advances a binding tooth to a sheet to perform binding processing of the sheet; an...