US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 1 for "Image processing apparatus for performing two authentication steps and selecting a processing function based on first authentication" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,695, issued on July 1, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus for performing two authentication steps and selecting a processing function based on first authentication" was invented by Yuto Minetani (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system that permits an authenticated user to use an image processing apparatus provided with an operator and having a plurality of types of processing functions, the system including a reader that reads first authentication information from a recording medium on which the first authentication information is recorded in a readable manner, and a proces...