ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,119, issued on May 27, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Mizusawa (Tokyo), Kazune Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yosuke Eguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device to feed a sheet in a feeding direction includes a mount on which a substantially rectangular parallelepiped sheet pack is mountable; a first cutter to cut, in the feeding direction, a first side surface on one end side in a width direction orthogonal to the feeding direction out of four side surfaces of the sheet pack; a second cutter to cut, in the width direction, a second side surface...