ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,412, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Conveyance apparatus and printing apparatus" was invented by Toshihiro Nakagaki (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kohei Chike (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance apparatus includes a conveyor and processing circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The processing circuitry controls conveyance of the sheet by the conveyor and switching a direction in which the conveyor conveys the sheet to a direction opposite to a direction in which the sheet is ejected, after the conveyance of the sheet is stopped under a predetermined condition."
The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2022,...