ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,941, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeding device" was invented by Naoki Ishioka (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes a feeding portion, a first feeding roller pair, a registration roller pair forming a nip portion and correcting oblique movement of the sheet, a sheet feeding passage between the first feeding roller pair and the registration roller pair, a revering portion provided downstream of the registration roller pair and a second feeding roller pair feeding the reversed sheet to the registration roller pair. The second roller pair includes a driven rolle...