US Patent Issued to Ricoh on July 8 for "Medium processing apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,416, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Medium processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Shuuto Tohkaishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuusuke Shibasaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Hirono (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Shinoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Suzuka Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan), Naofumi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo), Yuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kanako Fujisaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...