ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,088, issued on June 24, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document sheet conveying device capable of achieving large capacity of sheet feed tray" was invented by Takafumi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan), Yoshitaka Tokoro (Osaka, Japan), Ren Isoda (Osaka, Japan) and Hirofumi Hagihara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document sheet conveying device includes a sheet feed tray lift mechanism, a top plate portion, a fixed wall portion, and a lifted wall portion. The sheet feed tray lift mechanism lifts up and down a sheet feed tray. The top plate portion is adjacent to the sheet feed tray at a downstre...