ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,500, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium feeding device and image reading apparatus" was invented by Masaki Namiki (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Ryoichi Shuto (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The medium feeding device includes a skew correction mechanism including a first lever member and a second lever member displaceable between an advanced position contactable with a document and a retracted position retracted from a transport path, and a first load member and a second load member displaceable between a blocking position at which a part of the transport path in a width direction is bloc...