US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on June 3 for "Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,124, issued on June 3, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yoshihiro Itogawa (Mizuho, Japan) and Satoshi Esaki (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MFP 1 includes an image forming unit 4 which forms an image on a sheet S1, a USB interface 12 which is to be connected to a PC 101 via a USB and receives a preceding command described in accordance with a control transfer protocol that is a transfer scheme of USB connection, and a CPU 91 which executes a preparation operation of the image formin...