ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,896, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus to prevent paper-jamming" was invented by Ryo Takano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhito Tsubakimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a discharge unit and a tray. The discharge unit discharges a recording medium printed by a print unit in a first direction. The tray includes a supporting surface that supports the recording medium discharged from the discharge unit, a protruding portion that forms part of the supporting surface and that protrudes in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a convex portion that...