US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 14 for "Sheet stacking device, image forming apparatus, control method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,578, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet stacking device, image forming apparatus, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Eri Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet stacking device includes: a mounting table on which a pallet is mounted, the mounting table having a lift; a sensor including: light emitters and light receivers each arranged in the lateral direction of the sheet stacking device so as to face with each other, the sensor to detect at least one of an upper surface of sheets stacked on the pallet or an upper surface of the pallet; and circuitry configured ...