ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,962, issued on March 31, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium conveyance device and image forming apparatus" 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 conveyance device includes: a plurality of roller pairs arranged in a width direction of a recording medium, the plurality of roller pairs including at least two end-side roller pairs respectively located near two ends of the recording medium in the width direction and at least one center-side roller pair located near a center of the recordin...