US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 21 for "Relay transport device, recording system, and feeding system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,398, issued on April 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Relay transport device, recording system, and feeding system" was invented by Chiaki Shimada (Shiojiri, Japan) and Katsuyuki Kondo (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay transport device is configured to relay a medium fed from the feeding device and transport the medium to the recording device. The relay transport device includes a first restriction section having a first restriction surface configured to position a first edge, which is one edge in a width direction, a first transport belt configured to transport the medium toward the first restri...