ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,366, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON DENSHI K.K. (Chichibu, Japan).
"Document receiving apparatus" was invented by Asako Murase (Nagareyama, Japan), Masashi Yamaguchi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Shigeru Ikezaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document receiving apparatus comprises a receiving port configured to receive a document into an apparatus main body, a document stopper configured to be pivotable between a first posture in which reception of the document is suppressed and a second posture in which the reception is permitted, a holding portion configured to hold the document stopper in the first posture, and a bias...