ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,253, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Medium conveying device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Naoto Miyakoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Shuji Osaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveying apparatus includes a driving roller, a plurality of driven rollers, a support part, a plurality of upstream restriction parts and a plurality of downstream restriction parts. The support part supports the driven rollers. The upstream restriction parts are provided in the support part between the adjacent driven rollers. The downstream restriction parts are provided in...