ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,244, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transport device and recording device" was invented by Junya Shibuya (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device includes a skew correction unit configured to correct skew of a medium by colliding with the medium and a buffer unit provided with a contact portion configured to come into contact with the medium between a first transport unit transporting the medium to the skew correction unit and the skew correction unit in a transport direction. The buffer unit is configured such that a second transport velocity is lower than a first transport v...