ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,723, issued on March 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium feeding device and medium processing device including the same" was invented by Masahito Niwa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuya Chonabayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Junki Kazama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Megumi Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium feeding device includes a container member that accommodates sheet media, a discharging member disposed further than the media accommodated in the container member in a discharging direction in which the media are discharged, a hand-over member disposed ...