ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,778, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus" was invented by Hidetoshi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Maekawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: a housing having a placement portion on which a discharge target object discharged from a discharge port is placed, and a standing wall rising from an end portion of the placement portion and having the discharge port formed therein, the housing allowing an operator to access the placement portion from at least a side facing toward a direction of the standing wall; a display unit; and a coupling portion that couples th...