US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Nov. 11 for "Binding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,689, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Binding apparatus" was invented by Nobuhide Inaba (Kanagawa, Japan), Kumiko Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Ogino (Kanagawa, Japan), Masashi Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takumi Uegane (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding apparatus includes a binder configured to bind sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper, a water adjuster configured to adjust an amount of water contained in the sheets of paper, and a processor configured to, based on a setting on one of the binder or the water adjuster, make a...