ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,332, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KINPO ELECTRONICS INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Scanning device having movable scanning module" was invented by Yu-Ying Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Chi Ho (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Chih Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a scanning device having a which has a tray set, a movable scanning module and an automatic document feeder. The tray set has a feeding tray and a first output tray. The movable scanning module is movable between a first position and a second position. The automatic document feeder has a flip path, a feeding path, an output ...