ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,930, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus, image reading control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" was invented by Ryoichi Taniyama (Kitakyushu, Japan), Rei Tsutsui (Kitakyushu, Japan), Yoshihiro Hamaguchi (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Yuji Takase (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified use...