US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "System and method for providing information to properly maintain an image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,619, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"System and method for providing information to properly maintain an image processing apparatus" was invented by Yuichiro Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, upon receiving a request for providing information about a part identified to take action for a predetermined error that has occurred in an image processing apparatus, provides data for displaying the information about the identified part and maintenance information together as a response to the request. The maintenance information displayed based on the data includes maintenance information...