ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,288, issued on July 29, was assigned to Foxlink Image Technology Co. Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Automatic document feeder" was invented by Ming Wei Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wen Ching Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei Pin Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic document feeder includes a horizontal feeding path, a curve feeding path, a scanning unit arranged in the horizontal feeding path, a motor, a movable document guider, an actuator, a feeding roller arranged in the horizontal feeding path, and a transmission structure. One end of the curve feeding path is connected with a common document inlet, the...