US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 13 for "Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,605, issued on May 13, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Morishita (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus including a main body control apparatus, a main body cassette, and an additional cassette different from the main body cassette and coupled to a bus-shaped communication line to which the main body control apparatus is coupled, and the main body control apparatus transmits in image formation an acknowledgement unnecessary command indicating that an acknowledgement is unnecessary to the ...