US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 1 for "Image reading device, image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing image reading program, and image reading method comprising a switching mechanism to switch the traveling of light from a light source to an optical path directly irradiating a document or via a traveling change member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,579, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image reading device, image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing image reading program, and image reading method comprising a switching mechanism to switch the traveling of light from a light source to an optical path directly irradiating a document or via a traveling change member" was invented by Takaharu Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenji Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading device includes a single light source that irradiates an image reading target with light, a traveling change mem...