US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Nov. 4 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,474, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Keigo Goto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform an acquisition processing of acquiring a preceding command, a preparation processing, and a printing processing. In a case where the controller determines that a performance condition of the printing processing is satisfied, the controller is configured to perform the preparation processing in response to acquisition of the preceding command, and the printing processing in accordance with a pri...