ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,956, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electronic apparatus capable of determining whether to execute power supply to control portion at start of power supply from outside" was invented by Masayuki Shigetomi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a control portion, a signal output circuit, a switching processing portion, and a determination processing portion. The control portion switches on or off power supply from the primary power source in response to detection of an operation on a power switch. The signal output circuit outputs a preset digi...