US Patent Issued to RICOH on Aug. 12 for "Sheet folding apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,647, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet folding apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Yuusuke Shibasaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Hirono (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Shinoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuuto Tohkaishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Suzuka Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan), Naofumi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Takayama (Tokyo), Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo), Yuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kanako Fujisaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by t...