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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,153, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Post-processing device with a pressing section" was invented by Hiroyuki Kosuge (Matsumoto, Japan) and Riku Maeda (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-processing device includes a first discharge section that discharges a medium subjected to recording by a recording device, a first tray on which the medium discharged by the first discharge section is mounted, a post-processing section that performs post-processing on the medium mounted on the first tray, a pressing section configured to perform a leading-end pressing operation of lowering a leading en...