ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,592, issued on April 14, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium ejection apparatus including ejection tray formed with recessed part and beam part" was invented by Hiroshi Shiraiwa (Kahoku, Japan) and Yuki Takato (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium ejection apparatus includes a housing, an ejection roller, and an ejection tray attached to the housing to be able to rotate and having a first surface and a second surface, formed at a back side of the first surface, to stack the medium ejected by the ejection roller. The first surface and the second surface are formed by a single member. The first surface i...