US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 29 for "Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and printed material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,897, issued on July 29, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and printed material" was invented by Saki Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Hitosugi (Tokyo), Kazumi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Keiko Kajimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Norio Kudoh (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaroh Kurosu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Tsuchiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and developing containers. The image forming unit includes developing stations to form an image on a print medium with toners, based on input image da...