US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Nov. 4 for "Binding apparatus, image forming system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,477, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Binding apparatus, image forming system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program, and method" 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 supplier configured to supply a preset amount of water to the sheets of paper to be bound by...