US Patent Issued to Canon Production Printing Holding on April 7 for "Device and method for exerting a stretching on a recording medium" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,777, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Device and method for exerting a stretching on a recording medium" was invented by Andreas Paul (Vaterstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device for exerting a stretching on a recording medium. The recording medium rests with its back side on at least one respective contact region of a plurality of bearing element regions of at least one bearing element. The bearing element regions are arranged transverse to a transport direction of the recording medium and stand out from a base body. A portion of the bearin...