US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Dec. 9 for "Scanning system and information processing program for outputting preceding and subsequent image data from preceding and subsequent documents" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,116, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Scanning system and information processing program for outputting preceding and subsequent image data from preceding and subsequent documents" was invented by Yoshiki Azuma (Nagano, Japan), Naoki Oshikawa (Yamanashi, Japan) and Masayuki Nagase (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning system includes: a document reading unit configured to read a document and generate image data read from the document; a prompting unit configured to prompt a notification unit to add, after the document reading unit reads a preceding document, a subsequent document subsequ...