US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Recording apparatus, management server, ordering system, recording method using recording apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,557, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus, management server, ordering system, recording method using recording apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Keiichi Iimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus including an ink tank storing ink supplied from an ink bottle and a head to which ink is supplied from the ink tank includes a determination unit configured to determine a value related to ink consumption in the ink bottle based on a value related to ink consumption in the ink tank, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the value re...