ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,378, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image reading apparatus" was invented by Kiyoshi Watanabe (Chiba, Japan), Kazuhisa Okuda (Tokyo) and Michiaki Endo (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a first image reading unit, a second image reading unit provided on a side opposite from the first image reading unit with respect to a sheet feeding passage, a first guiding member, a second guiding member, a first unit holding the first image reading unit and the second guiding member, and a second unit holding the second image reading unit and the first guiding member. One of th...