US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 22 for "Medium transport device, recording device, recording system, and medium transport method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,473, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium transport device, recording device, recording system, and medium transport method" was invented by Chiaki Shimada (Okaya, Japan), Takeru Oguchi (Chino, Japan), Hiroshi Shiobara (Matsumoto, Japan) and Tatsuya Hosokawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a first roller that transports a medium in a transport direction, and a control unit that controls the first roller. The control unit rotates the first roller at a first speed when the first roller transports a first medium. When a rear end of the first medium is...