ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,679, issued on July 14, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).
"Media feeding apparatus, media feeding method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Takumi Ito (Kahoku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media feeding apparatus includes a media table on which a medium is placed; a pick roller disposed above the table to feed the medium on the table; a pressing member to apply a downward pressing force to the roller; and circuitry that controls the table to be raised to press the medium toward the roller when a leading end of the medium does not reach a predetermined position within a predetermined time from star...