US Patent Issued to PFU on Sept. 9 for "Medium conveyance device, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,026, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveyance device, control method, and control program" 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 conveying apparatus includes a loading tray to place media, a feed roller to separate and sequentially feed the media placed on the loading tray, a motor to drive the feed roller, a sensor located on a downstream side of the feed roller in a medium conveying direction to detect a medium, and a processor to control the motor. In a separation period from a start of medium feeding by...