ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,656, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).
"Medium conveyance device" was invented by Kiichiro Shimosaka (Kahoku, Japan) and Hideyuki Okumura (Kahoku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveying apparatus includes feed roller pairs spaced and located in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying direction, to separate and feed a medium, and conveying roller pairs located on a downstream side of the feed roller pairs in the medium conveying direction, and spaced and located in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction. For each of the conveying roller pairs, a diameter of an ...