US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 29 for "Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,326, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Ryohsuke Akaishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Kunieda (Tokyo), Yohsuke Haraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Horita (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kuno (Tokyo), Koju Kawakami (Tokyo) and Yasunobu Kidoura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing apparatus including a sheet feeder, a sheet processing device, a sheet ejection device, a purge unit, a multifeed sensor, and circuitry. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet toward a sheet conveyance passage. The sheet processing device performs a pr...