US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. on Jan. 13 for "Method and system for accessing remote files" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,333, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).

"Method and system for accessing remote files" was invented by Pranay Bhandarkar (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accessing a remote multifunction printer, the method includes receiving, by a first multifunction printer, an authenticator from a user; forwarding, by the first multifunction printer, the authenticator received to a remote server with a request to authenticate the user on the first multifunction printer and one or more second multifunction printers, the remote server configured to be in com...