US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 8 for "Image reading apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,929, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Naoto Hamabata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masakazu Shirai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus including: a transport path along which a recording material is transported from an upstream location toward a downstream location; and an image reader that reads an image formed on a portion of the recording material in the transport path, the portion being positioned at a specific location on the transport path. A width of the transport path in a thickness dir...