US Patent Issued to Ricoh on July 1 for "Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,969, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Joji Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Furuhashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Takahashi (Tokyo), Sho Asano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshito Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Shinya Monma (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohsuke Haraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing apparatus sandwiches a sheet media in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet processing apparatus i...