US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 8 for "Post-processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,413, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Post-processing device" was invented by Hiroyuki Kosuge (Matsumoto, Japan), Chiaki Shimada (Shiojiri, Japan), Kenji Uchibori (Shiojiri, Japan), Naoki Uemura (Suwa, Japan), Shun Hara (Matsumoto, Japan), Hirohisa Kodaira (Shiojiri, Japan) and Riku Maeda (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-processing device includes a processing tray, an aligning plate, a transport section, a feeding section, and a pressing section. A sheet before being subjected to stapling processing by a stapler is to be mounted on the processing tray. The aligning plate aligns ends ...