ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,658, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and control device" was invented by Kohsuke Inoue (Boulder, Colo.) and Hideaki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section that conveys a recording medium along a conveyance path. The image forming apparatus includes a floating detector including a light projector and a light receiver and that detects floating of the recording medium based on a light reception result by the light receiver of light emitted from the light projector and passing above the conveyance path. The image fo...