US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Aug. 11 for "Reading apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,016, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Reading apparatus" was invented by Toshikazu Hori (Nagoya, Japan), Satoshi Matsushita (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroya Nojiri (Nagoya, Japan), Satoru Yanagi (Obu, Japan), Tomomi Shiraki (Nagoya, Japan), Akihito Uno (Iwakura, Japan), Taiga Mizumori (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Matsumoto (Nagoya, Japan), Toshiki Motoyama (Konan, Japan) and Thanh Nguyenvan (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading apparatus includes a user interface, a scanner, and a controller configured to perform a push scan that causes the scanner to read a document according to an executi...