ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,139, issued on April 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transport apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Omoto (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport apparatus includes: a transport mechanism that transports a medium manually inserted; and a control unit that changes, depending on a type of the medium, a start timing of transporting the medium."
The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2022, under Application No. 17/650,085.
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