US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Sheet supply device and recording device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,120, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet supply device and recording device" was invented by Kosuke Yasuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takakazu Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomohiro Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet supply device includes a support portion that rotatably supports a roll sheet, a drive portion that rotates the roll sheet supported by the support portion in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the fist direction, a first supply path to which a sheet from the roll sheet supported by the support portion is supplied, a second supply path to which a sheet from the roll sh...