US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 25 for "Image forming apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and method for accepting input operations from mobile terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,984, issued on March 25, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and method for accepting input operations from mobile terminal" was invented by Shun Takeuchi (Ichinomiya, Japan), Kosuke Mori (Handa, Japan), Yuichiro Sakuragi (Ichinomiya, Japan) and Satoshi Tanimoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a network interface, an operation panel including a touch panel, and a controller configured to provide a mobile input function to a mobile terminal via the network interface. The mobile input function enables the image...