US Patent Issued to Canon on March 11 for "Image processing apparatus that requests collection of consumable, controlling method and storage medium therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,353, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Toyko, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus that requests collection of consumable, controlling method and storage medium therefor" was invented by Kyosuke Nakano (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus capable of requesting collection of a consumable without complicated work. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not collection of a consumable is necessary, acquires, in a case where it is determined that the collection of the consumable is necessary, user information as information necessary for a collection request of ...