US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,838, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shigeto Tanaka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a tray on which a sheet is to be placed, a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet placed on the tray, a platen on which a sheet is to be placed, a reading unit configured to read one of a first surface of the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and a first surface of the sheet placed on the platen, and a controller configured to control the image reading apparatus to execute, a first reading mode of re...