ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,935, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Power sequence control of integrated scanner assembly and image forming engine" was invented by In Park (Seongnam, South Korea), Jun Young Lee (Seongnam, South Korea) and Eun Seok Park (Seongnam, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control device includes a power supply, an integrated scanner assembly (ISA), an image forming engine including a general engine unit and a special engine unit, a main power switch, a special engine unit power switch, and a processor including an independent power controller, and the processor to con...