US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 4 for "Recording device to read an image of a document and determine the position of an edge guide to detect the size of a medium with the same reader used to detect the document image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,777, issued on March 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device to read an image of a document and determine the position of an edge guide to detect the size of a medium with the same reader used to detect the document image" was invented by Keisuke Sasaki (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device includes a reading device including a reading unit that reads an image of a document, a placement unit at which a medium is placed, and a recording unit that performs recording on the medium transported from the placement unit. A size of the medium is determined by emitting light from the readi...