ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,572, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, and control method for controlling image forming apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Kaneda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register setting values of a plurality of setting items including a predetermined setting item and a identifier in association with each other, a transmission unit configured to transmit the identifier to an information processing apparatus, a reception unit configured to receive print data from the information processing apparatus and a control u...