ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,247, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image recording apparatus" was invented by Nao Morimoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuya Tatematsu (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recording apparatus includes a housing in which a conveying path is formed, a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and including an accommodating portion configured to accommodate sheet media in a stacked state, an image recording unit configured to record an image on one of the sheet media in the conveying path, a guide member provided at a facing portion of the housing which faces an end por...