ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,684, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Post-processing device" was invented by Takeru Oguchi (Chino, Japan) and Masaki Miyazawa (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport unit transports a transport medium after the transport medium is newly placed as an uppermost medium in a state in which one or a plurality of placed media are already placed in a processing tray. At this state, at least one of the placed media placed on the processing tray is pressed by a pressing unit at a pressing position. After the transport unit is separated away from the transport medium, the pressing unit can mo...