ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,983, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Sheet stacking device and image forming system" was invented by Satoshi Kohara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet stacking device includes a sheet stacker, a pair of sheet restrictors, and a stacking adaptor. The sheet stacker has a first sheet stacking face on which a bundle of sheets is stacked. The sheet stacker includes a leading end support to support a leading end of the bundle of sheets in a feeding direction by a second sheet stacking face and a pair of cutouts disposed upstream from the leading end support. The pair of sheet restrictors slide in the pa...