ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,872, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation COrp. (Tokyo).

"Feeding device, transporting device, and processing system" was invented by Katsumi Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Raita Doi (Kanagawa, Japan), Teisuke Yanagawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomokazu Kurita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes: a loading portion that is disposed on a downstream side of a transporting path in a transporting direction and that loads a transporting target, which is transported through the transporting path, on a loading surface inclined with respect to a horizontal direction; and a feeding unit tha...