ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,337, issued on June 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet accommodating device and recording apparatus" was invented by Hiromasa Yoneyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Asai (Tokyo), Hideyuki Nozawa (Tochigi, 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 discharge port configured to discharge the recording medium, on which the image is recorded, in a discharge direction; and a receiving member located below the discharge port in a direction of gravity and configured to receive the recording medium dis...