ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,955, issued on April 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Portable terminal causing an image processing device to execute operations for image data" was invented by Norihiko Asai (Tajimi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions to control a portable terminal to perform processes including: an receiving processing of receiving a user operation; a first determination processing of determining whether device identification information is stored in the storage; performing a first designation processing; a second designation processing; wherein the first designa...