US Patent Issued to RICOH on Nov. 11 for "Sheet laminator and image forming system incorporating the sheet laminator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,176, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet laminator and image forming system incorporating the sheet laminator" was invented by Kazuki Shimodate (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaya Ochiai (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Takai (Tokyo) and Yosuke Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet laminator includes a fuser pressure member, a heater, a drive device, and circuitry. The fuser pressure member thermally fixes a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The ...