ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,404, issued on April 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport device that transports sheet" was invented by Ren Isoda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device includes a supply tray that supplies a sheet, a casing including a straight transport route through which the sheet is linearly transported, a reversing transport route through which the sheet is transported so as to be reversed, the reversing transport route being branched from the straight transport route, and an image reading device that reads an image on the sheet being transported through the straight transport ...