US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 12 for "Medium feeding device and control method for medium feeding device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,870, issued on May 12, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium feeding device and control method for medium feeding device" was invented by Masaya Yamasaki (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium feeding device includes a placement section on which a medium group is supported; a raising and lowering section configured to raise and lower the placement section; a pickup unit that includes a pickup roller that comes into contact with an upper section of the medium group and a support section that applies a downward force to the pickup roller, and that feeds a medium in order from a top in a feed direction wh...