US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 1 for "Reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and reading method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,038, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and reading method" was invented by Masaki Hachisuga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading apparatus includes: a light source; a film-shaped optical filter that blocks light having a predetermined wavelength among light from the light source; and a cylindrical light guide body that guides light passing through the optical filter and incident on one end surface to the other end surface, and irradiates an irradiation target body with light emitted from a side surface, in which a diffusion pa...