ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,786, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method, medium, and printing system that enable deletion of information regarding registration of the image forming apparatus to a cloud print service" was invented by Tsubasa Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus usable from a cloud print service by registering the image forming apparatus to the cloud print service. The image forming apparatus performs a deletion operation of information about the cloud print service in which the image forming apparatus is registered, the information being stored ...