ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,349, issued on March 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for controlling image forming system and wireless operation unit" was invented by Daisuke Suga (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an image forming system including a wireless operation unit having a third wireless communication unit, an acquiring unit that acquires status information of the image forming apparatuses, and a display that displays the status information of the image forming apparatuses includes a connection process in which the third wireless communication unit connects individually to each of a first wireless comm...