ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,828, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CITIZEN WATCH Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Printer" was invented by Akira Takahashi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a first flap that switches a path for a paper transported in a transport direction, to one of first and second paths; a second flap provided downstream of the first flap in the transport direction and configured to switch the path for the paper transported through the second path, to one of third and fourth paths; a movable member that moves in a paper width direction orthogonal to the transport direction; and a switc...