US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on May 20 for "Reading apparatus with sensors located at different positions along a conveyer path" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,335, issued on May 20, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Reading apparatus with sensors located at different positions along a conveyer path" was invented by Mamoru Namba (Nagoya, Japan), Tadanobu Chikamoto (Nagoya, Japan), Genki Hoshino (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroshi Shiomi (Nagoya, Japan) and Takashi Ohama (Iwakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading apparatus, having a document tray, an ejection tray, a conveyer path connecting the document tray and the ejection tray and having a curved section, a conveyer to convey an original document in a conveying orientation, a first reading sensor, and a second readi...