ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,459, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming system and operation unit" was invented by Kenji Fukushi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information to be displayed (display information) on a display of an operation unit for use in operating of an image forming apparatus corresponds to each user. Based on a first instruction from the operation unit, the operation unit reads out the display information stored in a second memory provided in the image forming apparatus and stores the display information into a first memory. Based on a second instruction from the operation unit, the display informa...