ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,261, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Processing device and recording device" was invented by Makoto Bosoku (Matsumoto, Japan), Shun Ito (Matsumoto, Japan), Atsuhiko Takeuchi (Matsumoto, Japan), Yosuke Nakano (Matsumoto, Japan) and Mitsuru Murata (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device includes a processing section and a medium receiving section, wherein the medium receiving section has a sheet-like receiving member having flexibility, a pivot shaft coupled to one end of the receiving member, an operation section coupled to the other end of the receiving member and provided s...