ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,198, issued on May 20, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image recording apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Miyao (Nisshin, Japan) and Yuta Arakawa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recording apparatus includes: a housing formed with a first conveying path through which a sheet is conveyed; a head positioned above the first conveying path; a platen positioned below the first conveying path to face the head and which is moved between a first position and a second position farther from the head than the first position; an interference member positioned below the platen; and a discharge tray. The...