ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,826, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium processing apparatus, recording system, method of controlling medium processing apparatus" was invented by Hirohisa Adachi (Matsukawa-machi, Japan), Takeru Oguchi (Chino, Japan), Kazuyoshi Ohashi (Matsumoto, Japan) and Masaki Miyazawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium processing apparatus includes a feeding portion configured to transport a medium, a processing tray on which the medium transported by the feeding portion is placeable, a processing portion configured to process the medium on the processing tray, and a discharging portion ...