US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 24 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,094, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Jumpei Aoyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Manabu Nonaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideki Tobinaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Junpei Kamichi (Tokyo), Satoshi Kuno (Tokyo) and Shun Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a sheet container accommodating a recording medium therein, a sheet separating feeder including a sheet feeding body and a sheet separating body, an image forming part, and a bend applier. The sheet feeding body feeds the recording medium along with a ...