US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Updating apparatus that updates information stored in storage device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,865, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Updating apparatus that updates information stored in storage device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masataka Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An updating apparatus that updates information stored in a storage device provided in a replacement unit of a predetermined apparatus includes: a control unit configured to, when initialization processing is started, read out usage information stored in a first region of the storage device and indicating a usage state of the replacement unit, perform backup processing of storing backup informati...