ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,928, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reading device and control method with notification of an error or improvement associated with document transport and data transfer speed" was invented by Hisataka Kugimachi (Fukutsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading device connected to an external device include a transport section configured to transport a document, a reading section configured to read the document transported by the transport section, a data generation section configured to generate image data of the document read by the reading section; a transfer section configured to transfer the im...