ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,606, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image reading apparatus" was invented by Noriyuki Koyanagi (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Tokujiro Okuno (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a transport unit which transports a document, and reading units which read an image of the document which is transported. It is assumed that an operation of reading an image when specific setting information is not input to a control device of the image reading apparatus is set to a first reading mode, and an operation of reading an image when specific setting information is input to th...