US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 30 for "Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,248, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Yusuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaroh Fukami (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeyuki Itoh (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Kuriyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuuki Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yiru Chen (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Fukuhara (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryoh Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuo Ohba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akikazu Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing apparatus includes a first guide plate and a second guide plate faci...