US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 7 for "Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,936, issued on July 7, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Akifumi Seto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a CCD sensor that reads an image on a first face of a document, oriented upward on a document tray, while the document is being transported through the first transport route, a CIS that reads an image on a second face of the document, oriented downward on the document tray, while the document is being transported through the common transport route, and a controller that permits a facsimil...