US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Aug. 19 for "Authentication of consumable by opening and closing of parts" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,048, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Authentication of consumable by opening and closing of parts" was invented by Seokheon Chae (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyojoon Bae (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Byungkyu Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming apparatus includes a sensor to sense an opening or a closing of a component to access a consumable in the image forming apparatus, a processor, and a memory to store instructions that may be executed by the processor. By executing the instructions, the processor is to confirm an opening/cl...