ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,772, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Recording apparatus and paper feeding method" was invented by Yuki Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Harigae (Tokyo) and Hikaru Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus having a support portion that supports a roll having a wound sheet, a drive portion, a conveying passage, a conveyer, and a recording portion. The drive portion rotates the supported roll in a first direction to feed the sheet from the roll, and rotates the roll in a second direction to rewind the sheet onto the roll. The conveying passage guides the sheet fed from the roll in a feeding ...