ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,523, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Processing method, laminator system, laminator, post-processing apparatus, and recording medium" was invented by Hiromu Nagato (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing method includes, collectively performing laminate processing with a long laminate film on a plurality of continuously conveyed flat cut sheets; cutting the long laminate film after the laminate processing for each flat cut sheet and obtaining a laminated flat cut sheet; and performing post-processing on the laminated flat cut sheet. An end portion of the laminated flat cut sheet as ...