US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. on June 10 for "Method and system for automated cryptographic signing for MFP-generated documents" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,421, issued on June 10, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).

"Method and system for automated cryptographic signing for MFP-generated documents" was invented by Shaun Pinney (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a multifunction printer (MFP) that generate a signed digital document from a document generated by the multifunction printer. The method includes displaying a third-party screen for a third-party scan or fax workflow; switching to a multifunction printer vendor signing screen and obtaining signing settings for the genera...