ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,593, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium feeding apparatus and image reading apparatus" was invented by Ryoichi Shuto (Kitakyushu, Japan), Kazuhito Noda (Shiojiri, Japan), Kiyotaka Nakamura (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Takayuki Shiota (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium feeding apparatus includes a medium supporting portion supporting a medium, a feeding roller that feeds the medium, a separation portion configured to advance and retreat with respect to the feeding roller, a path forming member that is a member positioned upstream in a medium feeding direction with respect to a cont...