US Patent Issued to PFU on Aug. 12 for "Medium conveyance device, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,173, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveyance device, control method, and control program" was invented by Masaaki Sakai (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a medium conveying apparatus, a control method, and a control program to enable determining whether multi-feed of the medium has occurred with higher accuracy. A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying module to convey a medium, a detection module to detect transmission information of ultrasonic waves transmitted through the medium or thickness information of the medium at a plurality of positions in the medium...