US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 8 for "Feeding device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,083, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinya Mitorida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shohei Matsunami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes a blowing unit that floats a plurality of stacked media by blowing air to side end portions of the media and that has a first blowing unit which blows the air from a defined region to the media and a second blowing unit which blows the air from a changing region to the media, a feeding unit that feeds the floating media, and a control unit that has a control mode i...