ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,957, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Envelope processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Shingo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Michitaka Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyoshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Yuusuke Shibasaki (Tokyo), Takahiro Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Shinoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An envelope processing apparatus conveys an envelope to an enclosing position and encloses an enclosure on which specific information is formed at a formation position. The enclosing device includes: an envelope conv...