ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,580, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Envelope processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo), Michitaka Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyoshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Yuusuke Shibasaki (Tokyo), Takahiro Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Shinoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An envelope processing apparatus includes a flap opener, a first envelope detector, a second envelope detector, and circuitry. The flap opener opens a flap of an envelope during conveyance of the envelope in an env...