US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 23 for "Image forming apparatus, image reading device, and liquid discharge device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,561, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image reading device, and liquid discharge device" was invented by Yusuke Tokunaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing having an opening; a drum configured to rotate around a rotation axis to convey a medium in a conveyance direction; an image former configured to form an image on the medium on the drum; and a reader downstream of the image former in the conveyance direction, the reader configured to read the image on the medium formed by the image former. The image former and the reade...