ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,712, issued on July 15, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing system for specifying countermeasures against errors, image forming system, information processing apparatus, inspection method, countermeasure specifying program, countermeasure specifying system, learning apparatus, and learning method" was invented by Motoki Hironaka (Musashino, Japan), Yutaka Miyasaka (Machida, Japan), Takenobu Kimura (Hachioji, Japan), Kei Okamura (Yokohama, Japan), Kei Yuasa (Sagamihara, Japan) and Tomohiro Mikami (Mitaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes: an image reader that reads an ...