US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 18 for "Image forming apparatus including main casing to which consumable including consumable memory is attachable" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,938, issued on March 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus including main casing to which consumable including consumable memory is attachable" was invented by Takayuki Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing to which a consumable including a consumable memory is attachable; a main memory; and a controller configured to perform: when the consumable is new, storing identification information of the consumable in the main memory; when the consumable is used and is a special consumable, determining whether the identification infor...