ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,658, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus that controls of receiving and not receiving voice instruction in voice input possible mode" was invented by Shoichi Sakaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Fumiya Sakashita (Osaka, Japan), Junpei Takada (Osaka, Japan), Yumi Hirobe (Osaka, Japan) and Takuma Fujikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a manual input instruction via an operation device and a voice instruction via a microphone; and a controller that executes a job on the basis of setting received by th...