US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 11 for "Enclosing device, envelope processing apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,940, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enclosing device to insert an enclosure into an envelope conveyed to an enclosing position includes an envelope conveyor and an enclosing unit. The envelope conveyor conveys the envelope to ...