ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,181, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Media conveying apparatus, media feeding method, and non-transitory recording medium" 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 media conveying apparatus includes a media table, a feed roller to feed a medium placed on the media table, a separation roller located to face the feed roller, a first motor to drive the feed roller, a second motor to drive the separation roller, and circuitry. The circuitry determines whether multi-feed of the medium has occurred and controls the first motor and t...