ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,798, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Kimura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of line sensors are disposed along a width direction intersecting a sheet conveying direction with respective positions in the width direction partially overlapping with each other, and configured to read images of a plurality of partial areas from the sheet, each of the partial areas including a non-overlapping area which does not overlap with an adjacent area and an overlapping area which overlaps with an adjacent area, each of which...