ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,132, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium discharge device, medium processing device, and recording system" was invented by Takeru Oguchi (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium discharge device includes an intermediate tray on which the medium aligned by the alignment section is placed, a pair of medium support sections configured to support a front end of the medium placed on the intermediate tray, and configured to be openable and closable, a discharge section for discharging a medium from the intermediate tray to the medium support section, and a curve imparting section that imparts a ...