ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,223, issued on March 18, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).

"Method and system for assisting a user with operation of multifunction printer using mobile device" was invented by Randy Cruz Soriano (San Leandro, Calif.) and Subramanyam Badri (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a multifunction peripheral or multifunction printer that includes a method of operating a multifunction printer. The method includes receiving, by the multifunction printer, a selection of a function of the multifunction printer; displaying, on a dis...