ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,307, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OPEX Corp. (Moorestown, N.J.).

"Document imaging apparatus with leading edge engagement for improved performance" was invented by Michael Sullivan (Moorestown, N.J.), Kerry O'Mara (Moorestown, N.J.), John Allen (Moorestown, N.J.), James Walsh (Moorestown, N.J.), Dobromir Kamburov (Moorestown, N.J.), Michael Sparango (Moorestown, N.J.), David Helmlinger (Moorestown, N.J.) and Peter Patrick (Moorestown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for processing documents is provided. The documents may be conveyed to a feeder for feeding documents to a scanner. The scanner scans each ...