ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,604, issued on March 24, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image reading apparatus" was invented by Seiji Tezuka (Kitakyushu, Japan), Noriyuki Koyanagi (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Naoki Sakamoto (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bu...