ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,679, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Identification apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Mogi (Chiba, Japan) and Yuma Inui (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification apparatus includes a guide member defining a guide path, a scanning portion that scans the sheet inserted in the guide path, a first detection portion disposed upstream of the scanning portion in an insertion direction of the sheet in the guide path that detects presence/absence of the sheet, and a second detection portion disposed downstream of the scanning portion in the insertion direction in the...