ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,696, issued on July 28, was assigned to RISO KAGAKU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conveying device" was invented by Yuki Hosoe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying device which is disposed so as to face an image forming unit that performs image formation on a medium and which conveys the medium while sucking the medium, the conveying device including: a conveying surface having a suction region that sucks the medium, wherein the suction region includes a first suction region including a region that faces an entirety of the image forming unit along a conveying direction of the medium, and a second suction region located on an upstream ...