ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,394, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveying apparatus" was invented by Masaya Tanaka (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sheet conveying apparatus capable of suppressing occurrence of an error related to reading and writing of information from and to a wireless tag. A sheet conveying apparatus includes a reading and writing unit, a detection unit, and an instruction unit. The reading and writing unit reads and writes information from and to a wireless tag provided on a sheet when the sheet passes through a predetermined position on a conveyance path. The detecti...