US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Image forming apparatus having paper type identification apparatus to determine type of sheet based on reading results of first surface and second surface by reading sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,673, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having paper type identification apparatus to determine type of sheet based on reading results of first surface and second surface by reading sensor" was invented by Kazusa Morimoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper type identification apparatus includes a passage configured to allow a sheet to be manually inserted thereinto, a reading sensor configured to read a surface of the sheet inserted into the passage and a controller configured to output a notification after reading a first surface of the sheet by the reading sensor. The n...