ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,597, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing medium accommodating apparatus and printing apparatus" was invented by Tsutomu Obata (Tokyo), Ryo Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Harigae (Tokyo), Itaru Wada (Kanagawa, Japan), Kengo Nieda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Fukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a printing medium accommodating apparatus, a printing medium discharged from a discharge port of a printing apparatus is stacked. The printing medium accommodating apparatus includes: a receiving member configured to receive a printing medium discharged from the discharge port; and a holding member having...