US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 15 for "Sheet-shaped-medium feeder and sheet-shaped-medium handling apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,740, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sheet-shaped-medium feeder and sheet-shaped-medium handling apparatus" was invented by Shoichi Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahito Niwa (Kanagawa, Japan), Teruki Naganuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Araki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiki Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Onoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that includes line members to vertically raise or lower the mount portio...