US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Aug. 26 for "Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,561, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Shigetoshi Hosaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes carriages each carrying a liquid discharge head and circuitry. The circuitry acquires divided print data having a size extended in a direction corresponding to a conveyance direction of a recording medium from a size corresponding to a length of a nozzle array of the liquid discharge head in the conveyance direction; identifies, for the liquid discha...