US Patent Issued to PFU on Sept. 9 for "Control of deleting unnecessary data files after storing generated data files in external storage area" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,806, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Control of deleting unnecessary data files after storing generated data files in external storage area" was invented by Mitsuhiro Yashiki (Ishikawa, Japan) and Yuta Hashimoto (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data file generation apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry generates a data file. The circuitry writes the data file to an external storage area that is external to the data file generation apparatus. The circuitry writes identification information of the data file to the external storage area as deletion candidate information indicating ...