US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Aug. 4 for "Printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,170, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device" was invented by Takanori Umeda (Shiojiri, Japan) and Keisuke Yamaya (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes a placement unit on which a plurality of media are stackable, a printing unit, and a feed roller that feeds the medium placed on the placement unit in a transport direction. Before starting feeding of the medium downstream in the transport direction, by repeating, a plurality of times, a preliminary feed operation of coming into contact with a first medium and rotating, and a non-feed operation of not feeding th...