ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,365, issued on March 18, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium placement device" was invented by Moe Takeuchi (Shiojiri, Japan), Tsutomu Ozaki (Matsumoto, Japan), Shun Ito (Matsumoto, Japan) and Keiichi Yato (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium placement device is configured to stack a plurality of sheets of a medium discharged from a discharge unit of a processing device. The medium placement device includes a plurality of support units being provided in a width direction intersecting with a discharge direction of the medium discharged from the discharge unit, and being configured to support the me...