ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,820, issued on July 22, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuki Haba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first sensor to detect at least one of a position of an image on a sheet or a length of the sheet; a first conveyor upstream or downstream of the first sensor in a conveyance direction; a fixing device; and circuitry. The first conveyor includes: a rubber belt; a driving roller within the rubber belt to rotate the rubber belt; a driven roller outside the rubber belt and driven by the rubber belt to convey the sheet in the conveyance direct...