ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,064, issued on May 13, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image reading device" was invented by Keita Fuji (Nakama, Japan) and Kazuhito Noda (Kitakyushu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading device includes an original-document support portion configured to support an original document to be fed, and an expansion support portion configured to be able to be expanded from and accommodated in the original-document support portion. The expansion support portion includes a first expansion portion extending along a width direction that is a direction intersecting an original-document feeding direction in a state o...