ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,036, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium transport device and recording apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Kosuge (Matsumoto, Japan) and Koki Ishikawa (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a belt unit that is a unit having a transport belt configured to attract and transport a medium and that is rotatably supported on both sides in a width direction, which intersects a medium transport direction; a first support section that is disposed on one side of the belt unit in the width direction and that rotatably supports the belt unit; a second support section...