US Patent Issued to PFU on Sept. 29 for "Media conveying apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,122, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Media conveying apparatus" was invented by Takumi Ito (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media conveying apparatus includes a feed table on which a medium is placed, a conveyor to convey the medium placed on the feed table, a sensor to detect floating of the medium conveyed by the conveyor, an ejector to eject the medium conveyed by the conveyor, an ejection tray located above the feed table to stack the medium ejected by the ejector, and an extension tray connected to a downstream side of the ejection tray in a media ejection direction. In a state wher...