US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on May 20 for "Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and image forming method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,146, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and image forming method" was invented by Norio Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus include a processor configured to: obtain a type of use, a tendency of use, or a use condition of the image forming apparatus by a user; and transmit a log regarding use of the image forming apparatus by the user with the obtained type of use, the obtained tendency of use, or the obtained use condition being distinguishable."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1...