ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,542, issued on March 11, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus that manages application accessible by user, information processing system including image forming apparatus, authentication application program, and normal application program" was invented by Yumi Nakagoshi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an authentication application device that registers information acquired from an authentication system, and indicating a normal application accessible by a user when the user logs in in the image forming apparatus, in temporary user inf...