US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 16 for "Printing authority management system, printing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,057, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing authority management system, printing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Yushi Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing authority management system includes a terminal device, a printing apparatus, and an information management device configured to communicate with the printing apparatus and the terminal device via a network, and manage the printing apparatus and increase an allowable printing amount of the printing apparatus in accordance with a predetermined guaranteed printin...