US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 24 for "Conveying device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,591, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Conveying device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yoshihiro Takahashi (Tokyo) and Motoharu Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying device includes a conveyor, a detector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a recording medium in a conveyance direction. The detector detects a skew amount and a shift amount of a posture of the recording medium to be sent to the conveyor and detects, in parallel, end positions of the recording medium in a width direction of the recording medium intersecting with the conveyance direction, at at leas...