US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Nov. 25 for "Determining whether toner used to print image is authorized" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,240, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Determining whether toner used to print image is authorized" was invented by Veera Venkata Paparao Gokavarapu (Bangalore, India) and Steven Holland (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image printed using toner is optically scanned. Whether the toner is authorized is determined by one or multiple of the following. A toner scatter pattern can be identified within the scanned image and whether the identified toner scatter pattern conforms to expected toner scatter patterns associated with authorized toner can be determined. A color w...