US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Feb. 4 for "Printing apparatus with device in transport path" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,584, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus with device in transport path" was invented by Naoto Hayakawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a transport roller configured to transport a medium through a transport path; a printing unit configured to perform printing on the medium transported by the transport roller through the transport path; an intermediate roller configured to transport again, to the transport path, the medium transported through an inversion path in a reverse direction to a transport direction of the medium to invert a front surfa...