ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,232, issued on June 10, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device and control method for recording device" was invented by Tomohiro Yoda (Matsumoto, Japan) and Shinya Yamazaki (Higashichikuma-Gun Asahi-mura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device includes a holding part that holds a roll body of a recording medium, a rotation mechanism that rotates the roll body, a pair of transport rollers that transport the recording medium by nipping and rotating the recording medium, a recording part that performs recording on the transported recording medium, a first detection part that detects a leading end o...