ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,636, issued on June 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium transport device and medium processing apparatus using the same" was invented by Ryuga Oishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Tamai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryosuke Yamaji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes: a first transport unit that is provided in a first transport path, and nips and transports a medium by a pair of rotating bodies; a second transport unit that is provided in a second transport path different from the first transport path, and nips and transports a medium by a pair of rotating bodies; a...