US Patent Issued to PFU on July 28 for "Medium conveying apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,107, issued on July 28, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveying apparatus" was invented by Kiichiro Shimosaka (Kahoku, Japan) and Syuichi Morikawa (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveying apparatus includes a mounting table having a mounting surface on which a medium is to be placed, a side guide disposed on the mounting surface and including a restricting surface to restrict the medium in a width direction of the medium, and a recessed portion disposed at an upstream or downstream end portion of the side guide in a medium conveyance direction of the medium. The recessed portion has an uppe...