ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,061, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus therewith" was invented by Shota Onishi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet storage portion that stores sheets. The sheet storage portion has a bottom wall portion and a circumferential wall portion. The circumferential wall portion has a pair of support protruding portions and a groove portion. The pair of support protruding portions protrude from opposite inner circumferential faces facing each other along the axial direction of a pivot axi...