ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,825, issued on March 25, was assigned to BIXOLON Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Printer and method for detecting printing paper" was invented by Chul Hui Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes: a transfer unit configured to transfer printing paper in a printing direction; a printing unit configured to print information on transferred printing paper; a detection unit installed to face discharged printing paper on a printing paper discharge portion side, and configured to acquire measured values by detecting light while printing paper is transferred or when the transfer of printing paper is...