US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Feb. 4 for "Image formation device, control method for image formation device, and cartridge" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,604, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image formation device, control method for image formation device, and cartridge" was invented by Shunsuke Yamamoto (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus has a main body housing, a network interface for connecting to a network, a cartridge mountable to the main body housing and having a material or a component to be used for image formation in the image forming apparatus and a memory that stores contract information for permitting use of the cartridge in the image forming apparatus set to a contract mode, a communication uni...