US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 18 for "Image forming apparatus that performs inspection processing on print data and method of controlling image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,456, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that performs inspection processing on print data and method of controlling image forming apparatus" was invented by Keishi Araki (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus capable of controlling execution of inspection without increasing a time period required to complete printing. On a registration screen, whether or not to execute inspection of data to be printed is set, and keywords indicative of confidentiality are registered. Text information is extracted from the data to be printed, and whether or not any keyword...