ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,453, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, processing system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for automatically storing account information" was invented by Masato Iguchi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal device that includes a communicator that communicates with an electronic instrument operable in a first mode that is a normal mode and in a second mode, a storage, and a processor. The processor acquires, from the electronic instrument which is in the second mode, predetermined account information for performing predetermined processi...