US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on June 9 for "Medium transport device and image reading apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,637, issued on June 9, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium transport device and image reading apparatus" was invented by Masaki Namiki (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Yuhei Hamada (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a drive source, a transport path through which a medium is transported in a transport direction between a first path surface and a second path surface located away from the first path surface, a plurality of projecting portions that projects from the first path surface and is arranged in a width direction intersecting the transport direction, and a moving portion that...