US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Aug. 11 for "Medium supply device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,592, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium supply device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yohei Onoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuichi Araki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium supply device includes: a stacking unit in which media are stackable in a vertical direction; a first regulating unit that is provided on the stacking unit and that regulates positions of side portions of the media in a width direction; a supply unit that supplies air to more than one of the media stacked on the stacking unit so that the more than one of the media are raised and sepa...