ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,933, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium feeding device and recording apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Sasaki (Matsumoto, Japan), Takayuki Tanaka (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hiroki Shinagawa (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium feeding device includes a feeding roller that is provided in a medium feeding path through which a medium is fed and that feeds a medium downstream by rotating in the forward direction in response to power of a motor, a nip roller that is provided in the medium feeding path and that nips a medium in cooperation with the feeding roller and rotates, and a controll...