US Patent Issued to Canon on March 11 for "Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,715, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Hidemi Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus including an execution unit configured to perform printing with a color fadable recording agent and printing with a color unfadable recording agent, includes a reception interface (IF) configured to receive a print job, and a controller having one or more processors which execute instructions stored in one or more memories, the controller being configured to set a recording agent to be used in executing the p...