US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Jan. 27 for "Maintenance control device, system, method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for determining a maintenance content of a printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,396, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Maintenance control device, system, method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for determining a maintenance content of a printing apparatus" was invented by Shinichi Tanaka (Shiojiri, Japan), Takuya Yasue (Matsumoto, Japan), Junichi Miyake (Matsumoto, Japan) and Takamu Nakai (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance control system includes a use history acquisition unit that acquires a use history of a printing apparatus, a use state prediction unit that predicts a future use state of the printing apparatus based on the use his...