US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Jan. 20 for "Image forming apparatus and medium abnormality detection method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,302, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and medium abnormality detection method" was invented by Yuki Takagi (Singapore) and Akira Suzuki (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal printer 1 that forms an image on sheet-shaped paper P using a print head 21 and discharges the paper P through a discharge port, the printer 1 including: an upper detection unit 31 provided closer to a side of the discharge port than to the print head 21 in a conveyance path of the paper P, the upper detection unit 31 being provided above the conveyance path and configured to detect ...