ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,478, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image forming system" was invented by Kohei Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoaki Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kota Tomioka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes: a transfer unit that transfers an image onto an object; a transporter that transports the object in the horizontal direction; a raising/lowering unit that raises and lowers the object in the vertical direction; and a processor configured to: after height adjustment performed by the raising/lowering unit, if the object has a top whose height is great...