US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on May 13 for "Image forming apparatus to accept operations from mobile terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,338, issued on May 13, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus to accept operations from mobile terminal" was invented by Koki Izumi (Nagoya, Japan), Yuichiro Sakuragi (Ichinomiya, Japan), Satoshi Tanimoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Kosuke Mori (Handa, 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. The controller is configured to provide a mobile input function to a mobile terminal via the network interface. In response to accepting a first operation to the operation panel with a local operation s...