ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,973, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image reading apparatus" was invented by Kazuki Matsuo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a conveying portion, a reading portion, an ejecting portion which ejects the sheet, conveyed by the conveying portion, in an ejection direction, and a sheet loading portion having a first loading portion and a second loading portion. The first loading portion is located below the ejecting portion and loaded with the sheet ejected from the ejecting portion. The second loading portion is located on a downstream side of the first loading po...