ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,257, issued on March 4, was assigned to COLOP DIGITAL GMBH (Wels, Austria).
"Accessory device" was invented by Cedric Heinl (Neuhofen an der Krems, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory device is for an electronic marking device. The accessory device has a connection device for releasably connecting to an electronic marking device, and the accessory device has a stop for limiting movement of a document transversely to a printhead of a connected electronic marking device. A deflecting mechanism deflects the document, and the stop and the deflecting mechanism are arranged on different sides of the printhead of the connect...