ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,681, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Power saving mode of image forming apparatus with setting detection of wakeup events and deactivation of wakeup event detection based on usage pattern" was invented by Jounghoon Choo (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Sunjoo Yoon (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Jungwoon Jung (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming device includes a wakeup source to detect an event for cancelling a power saving mode of the image forming device, a display, a processor, and a memory to store instructions executable by the processo...