ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,128, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Paper feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hironori Ogasawara (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a tray; a delivery roller; a paper feeding roller; a guide member; a lifting/lowering mechanism; a first detector; and a controller. The controller executes paper feeding processing of feeding a sheet of paper delivered from the tray by rotating the paper feeding roller, executes, during the paper feeding processing, retry processing of resuming the paper feeding processing after stopping the paper fee...