ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,118, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Akiyuki Mitamura (Inashiki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding apparatus includes: a conveying roller; a separating roller which forms a nip portion by pressing the conveying roller and separates a sheet conveyed by the conveying roller one by one in the nip portion; a moving portion configured to move a stacking portion from a first position at which a sheet stacked in the stacking portion and a feeding roller are separated from each other to a second position...