US Patent Issued to Canon on June 3 for "Recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,072, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus" was invented by Yumi Mukoyama (Tokyo), Masaaki Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyuki Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), Junichi Kubokawa (Nagasaki, Japan), Yasunori Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyosuke Kamishima (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Kiuchi (Tokyo), Keisei Hakamata (Tokyo), Haruo Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoichi Kan (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaaki Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus to record an image on a sheet includes a roller pair and a switching unit. The roller pair sandwiches the sheet...