ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,074, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image reading apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Yukihiro Soeta (Kanagawa, Japan), Teppei Nagata (Chiba, Japan), Tomohito Nakagawa (Chiba, Japan) and Masaki Uchida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit and a reading unit. The reading unit includes a transparent member, a sensor unit including a substrate to which an image reading element is connected, and configured to read an image of the sheet through the transparent member, a fan configured to blow air, a supporting member including an opening forme...