ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,334, issued on June 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus having recording medium guide and receiving member" was invented by Yasuyuki Asai (Tokyo), Hideyuki Nozawa (Tochigi, Japan), Hiromasa Yoneyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kota Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus includes a recording portion configured to record an image on a recording medium; a housing having an ejection opening on the side of the housing, the recording medium recorded with the image being ejected from the ejection opening in the ejection direction; and a receiver that receives the recording medium ejecte...