US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 23 for "Image reading apparatus with multi-sheet feed detection" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. RE50,603, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus with multi-sheet feed detection" was invented by Noriyuki Koyanagi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a transport section that can transport original documents along a transport path, a reading section configured to read images of the original documents transported by the transport section, an output controller configured to output data of the original documents read by the reading section, a multi-sheet feed detection sensor configured to detect a multi-sheet feed of the original documents trans...