ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,142, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeder" was invented by Masahiro Ohno (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeder includes a cassette has a sheet container space configured to hold a sheet having a wireless tag. The cassette feeds the sheet to a first side in a first direction. A horizontal direction orthogonal to the first direction is a second direction. A range in the second direction occupied by the wireless tag of the sheet held in the sheet container space is a first range. A range in the second direction including at least a part of the first range is a secon...