ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,700, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium ejection device and image reading device" was invented by Masaki Namiki (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Seiji Tezuka (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium ejection device includes a lever that is movably disposed at the position of a pair of ejection rollers including a first roller and a second roller that nip and eject a medium and moves from one of the rollers to another of the rollers to push the medium, a lever position adjustment unit that moves the lever in a movement direction to adjust an advance position, and a motor that transmits pow...