ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,068, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Multifunction peripheral, server, and system" was invented by Masao Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunction peripheral comprises a reading unit configured to read a filled-in answer sheet on which an answer has been filled in, a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to a server, data related to the filled-in answer sheet read by the reading unit, a receiving unit configured to receive, from a server, data related to a correctness of the answer that has been filled in on the filled-in answer sheet and a printing unit configured to execute, bas...