US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 17 for "Printed material management system and shredder" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,451, issued on June 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printed material management system and shredder" was invented by Naoki Kusumoto (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed material management system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a management program, a server, and a shredder. The management program is configured to cause a controller of a device to execute a print data acquisition process, a generation process, a printing process, and a transmission process. In a case where the shredder receives specific information, the shredder is configured to execute a readi...