US Patent Issued to Lioce Meters on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for communicating with locally connected printers and copiers" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,051, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lioce Meters LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for communicating with locally connected printers and copiers" was invented by Alex Raymond Cantrell (Town Creek, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for communicating with locally connected printers and copiers are disclosed. Such systems comprise a USB2SNMP component (on an end-user computer) that forwards SNMP data-collection requests from a data-collection component to a printer locally connected to the end-user computer. The printer responds by sending data to the USB2SNMP component for forwarding to the data-col...