US Patent Issued to CANON on May 20 for "Image forming apparatus, multifunction peripheral and terminal, exclusive usage mode control method, and computer readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,140, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, multifunction peripheral and terminal, exclusive usage mode control method, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Hirokazu Tokumoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a request from a registered terminal, the request being a request of enabling an exclusive usage mode relating to a printing function for the registered terminal; and an enabling unit configured to enable the exclusive usage mode in a case where the request is received."

The patent was...