US Patent Issued to LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL on July 28 for "Assembly for restraining media in an automatic document feeder" (American, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,108, issued on July 28, was assigned to LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC. (Lexington, Ky.).

"Assembly for restraining media in an automatic document feeder" was invented by Timothy Marc Brown (Lexington, Ky.), Ronaldo Maningas Calapis (Calamba City, Philippines) and Robert McAlister Whitesell (Georgetown, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for restraining media in an input tray includes a pick mechanism having a pick arm mounted at a first end thereof on a shaft. A media stop is positioned to be engageable by a leading edge of the media when the media is disposed in the input tray. The media stop is held by the pick arm in a med...