US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Cassette and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,927, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cassette and printing apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Kitagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Nagahara (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuji Kurata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasushi Ishida (Tokyo) and Toshiya Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cassette comprises a housing portion configured to have a placement face on which sheets are placed and to house sheets; and a standing wall configured to constitute a portion of the housing portion, and to regulate sheets on a back end side in a conveyance direction of sheets to be conveyed from the placement face to a printing ap...