US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Feb. 10 for "Image forming apparatus with structure to selectively guide print medium to reading member for scanning image thereon" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,113, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Image forming apparatus with structure to selectively guide print medium to reading member for scanning image thereon" was invented by Duckhyun Ka (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Seungjae Lee (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming apparatus includes a printing portion to print an image on a print medium, a gate member at an outgoing side of the printing portion to selectively guide the print medium discharged from the printing portion to a first route or a second route, and a reading member in the fir...