ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,035, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeder apparatus" was invented by Koichi Matsumura (Moriya, Japan) and Satoshi Okuma (Toride, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeder apparatus includes a width detector for a sheet placed on a sheet placement portion, a conveyor for conveying sheets while separating the sheets one by one, a first detector for detecting a sheet having a first width at a plurality of first positions, a second detector for detecting a sheet having a second width that is not detected by the first sheet detector at a plurality of second positions, and a controller for determin...