ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,724, issued on March 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium discharge device, post-processing device, recording system, control method of medium discharge device" was invented by Masaki Miyazawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit controlling an operation of opening and closing a pair of support portions and an operation of displacing a loading tray in a loading direction can acquire curl information including information regarding the degree of curl of a medium. The control unit sets, based on the curl information, a position of the loading tray in the loading direction when the pair of sup...