US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Nov. 4 for "Printed material management system including system and method for controlling a shredder" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,078, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printed material management system including system and method for controlling a shredder" was invented by Naoki Kusumoto (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed material management system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a management program, a server, and a shredder. The management program is configured to cause a controller of a device in which the management program is installed to execute a print data acquisition process of acquiring print data, a generation process of determining a printed material ID, and gen...