ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,072, issued on June 30, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transport path, recording device, recording system, and transport device" was invented by Yuto Suzuki (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transport path TR is a transport path TR for transporting the medium P in the transport direction, the transport path TR including path members XP that guide the medium P and that are arranged in the X-axis direction, which intersects the transport direction, wherein the path members XP are configured so that positions where the path members XP are provided are mutually switchable."

The patent was filed on May 12, ...