US Patent Issued to PFU on Oct. 14 for "Medium conveyance apparatus to determine whether tilt angle of medium has changed based on time from when any sensor detects medium to when another sensor detects medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,566, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveyance apparatus to determine whether tilt angle of medium has changed based on time from when any sensor detects medium to when another sensor detects medium" was invented by Kiichiro Shimosaka (Kahoku, Japan) and Syuichi Morikawa (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveyance apparatus includes a first sensor located at a center part in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveyance direction; a second sensor located at a downstream side from the first sensor in the medium conveyance direction and at the center part in the direction p...