US Patent Issued to RICOH on Aug. 12 for "Power control apparatus, image forming apparatus, power control method, and non-transitory computer-executable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,299, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Power control apparatus, image forming apparatus, power control method, and non-transitory computer-executable medium" was invented by Toshimasa Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control apparatus includes a power detection circuit to detect DC power converted from AC power supplied from a power supply and to be supplied to a control board of an image forming apparatus. The power control apparatus includes circuitry configured to, in response to a first printing operation performed by the image forming apparatus, calculate fluctuations in ...