US Patent Issued to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT on Nov. 18 for "Appending data on a replaceable supply component" (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,749, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Appending data on a replaceable supply component" was invented by Steven T Castle (Corvallis, Ore.), Paul L Jeran (Boise, Idaho), Jefferson P Ward (Vancouver, Wash.), Alex Michael Oaks (Spring, Texas), Jesse Otto Sutherland III (Vancouver, Wash.) and Robert Taylor (Washougal, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprising requesting authorization to reprocess a replaceable supply component using first data stored in memory of the replaceable supply component and an interface, the first data including original manufactur...