US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Feb. 24 for "Recording device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,338, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device" was invented by Satoshi Nakata (Matsumoto, Japan), Katsumi Yamada (Matsumoto, Japan), Hirokazu Anada (Matsumoto, Japan), Masanari Tanaka (Shiojiri, Japan), Kanji Momose (Matsumoto, Japan), Yusuke Komiyama (Matsumoto, Japan) and Daisuke Kanuma (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device in which an operating unit is provided to be pivotable to a parallel state and an inclined state with respect to a housing, a discharge tray includes a placement portion displaceable to an accommodation position and a use position, and an exten...