ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,696, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Document feed device with ascendable document guide member" was invented by Junghoon Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document feed device includes a tray in which a document is loaded, a pickup roller to be moved upward or downward to a standby position spaced apart from the document or to a pickup position to pick up the document in the tray, a separator to separate each sheet of the picked-up document, an inclined guide to connect an end of an exit of the tray to an entrance of the separator and to guide a b...