ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,051, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system with adjustable image forming speed and adjustable lamination speed" was invented by Yuki Yamauchi (Nishitokyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes, an image former configured to form an image on a recording medium that is a flat cut sheet; a laminator that is disposed on a downstream side of the image former in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and that laminates the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image former; and a hardware processor configured to adjust at least one of a lam...