ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,565, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Feeding device, printing apparatus and method of controlling feeding device" was invented by Ahmad Adam Zari Ardi Ramadhan (Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia) and Indo Permana Putra (Subang, Indonesia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes a housing, a sheet feeder tray that mounts a sheet, a feeding unit which transports the sheet from the sheet feeder tray, and is detachable from a rotating shaft, and a control unit that controls rotation of the feeding unit. The feeding unit is provided in such a way as to be turnable to a feeding position to transport ...