US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Oct. 14 for "Printer and printing system that initialize counter value after restriction period is started" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,377, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printer and printing system that initialize counter value after restriction period is started" was invented by Kazuki Ichikawa (Gamagori, Japan) and Yuichiro Sakuragi (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer has a function of restricting a number of printing during a particular period for each user ID. When printing is performed, a computer updates a counter value of the number of printing associated with a user ID corresponding to the printing, and restricts printing corresponding to the user ID when the counter value reaches an upper lim...