US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,774, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a support portion, a reading unit, and a first movable unit. The first movable unit moves the reading unit in a second direction, where a conveyance direction in which a sheet is conveyed in a conveyance path is defined as a first direction, a width direction of a first surface of the sheet orthogonal to the first direction is defined as the second direction, and a direction orthogonal to the first direction and th...