ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,814, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus that is unlikely to damage a printing medium with a detection lever includes a feeding unit configured to receive a printing medium and to convey the printing medium in a conveyance direction; and a detection lever configured to rotate about a rotation axis for detecting a printing medium on the feeding unit, wherein in a width direction of a printing medium, which intersects with the conveyance direction, a first position of a contact between the detection lever ...