US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Nov. 18 for "Image forming system including sheet laminator and method of controlling power consumption" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,657, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system including sheet laminator and method of controlling power consumption" was invented by Yuuta Hayashi (Tokyo), Yukio Morooka (Tokyo), Kizuku Ohno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuusuke Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet laminator, and circuitry. The sheet laminator performs a lamination processing on a two-ply sheet with a sheet, which is conveyed from the image forming apparatus and inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The circuitry performs a lamination p...