US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 7 for "Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,473, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Hiroshi Ando (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a head, a detector, and circuitry. The head forms an image on a recording medium. The detector detects a vertical movement of the recording medium and a distance to the recording medium in a vertical direction. The detector includes an optical sensor to project light to the recording medium and receive the light reflected from the recording medium. The circuitry sets a first are...