US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 12 for "Control over increasing printing material based on determination of subscription service operation mode and network setup process based on internet connection" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,566, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control over increasing printing material based on determination of subscription service operation mode and network setup process based on internet connection" was invented by Yoshiyuki Hirai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus determines whether it has connected to the Internet in a case where an operation to power on is accepted before initial setup of the printing apparatus is completed, and executes predetermined control for preventing a process for holding printing material in the printing apparatus from being performed by a user. Contract inform...