US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on Nov. 25 for "Recording material conveying device and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,218, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Recording material conveying device and image forming system" was invented by Masayuki Fukunaga (Nagareyama, Japan) and Satoshi Ogata (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording material conveying device includes: a first conveyor that conveys a recording material supplied from a recording material supply part; a second conveyor that branches from the first conveyor and conveys the recording material without passing through an image forming part; a third conveyor that branches from the first conveyor and conveys the recording material via the image ...