ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,506, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Reading apparatus, conveying operation control method and storage medium" was invented by Masayuki Watanabe (Fuchu, Japan), Hidenori Mine (Tachikawa, Japan), Harumitsu Fujimori (Toyokawa, Japan) and Takanobu Shiki (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading apparatus includes a reader, a conveyor, motors and a hardware processor. The reader reads a surface of a recording medium with an image formed. The conveyor includes rollers disposed along a conveyance path that passes through a reading area of the reader, and conveys the recording medium being ...