ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,902, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording device" was invented by Yoshiyuki Tanaka (Matsumoto, Japan) and Nobuhisa Nomoto (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device is equipped with a recording unit and a scanning unit. The document table of the scanning unit is located so that the longitudinal direction of the document table is aligned with the width directions of the device. The size of the document table in the width directions of the device is larger than the size of the medium accommodation section, the center position of the document table in the width directions of t...