ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,588, issued on April 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document conveying apparatus capable of correcting document skew" was invented by Hung Manh Vu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document conveying apparatus includes a correction roller, a correction portion, a biasing portion, and a regulating portion. The correction roller has a rotating shaft, and a pair of contact portions arranged spaced apart on the rotating shaft, each including contact pieces extending in radial directions from the same circumferential positions, and each capable of coming in contact with a leading edge of...