US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on June 30 for "Tray to hold sheet media for printing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,443, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Tray to hold sheet media for printing" was invented by Juan David Ramos Negron (Vancouver, Wash.) and Emma Frances Kelp-Stebbins (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a tray to hold sheet media for printing includes: a movable support to support a downstream part of a stack of media sheets in the tray; a barrier near a downstream end of the support, the barrier movable between a closed position in which, when a stack of media sheets is on the support, the barrier blocks a downstream end of the stack and an open posi...