US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on May 12 for "Reading device, output device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,763, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reading device, output device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masato Serikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoji Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading device includes a radiator radiating light, a light receiver receiving the light reflected from a target, a first optical path on which the light is reflected by a reflection surface to irradiate a surface of the target in a radiation area so that diffuse reflection light diffusely reflected by the surface of the target is guided to the light receiver as a read image, a ...