US Patent Issued to Sharp on Dec. 16 for "Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,986, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus" was invented by Shoji Noda (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus which stores settings for use in performing job processing includes: a display; and a storage which stores a setting history related to settings of past job processing, and a collective setting in which settings related to job processing are registered collectively. The image forming apparatus further includes: a setting controller which displays a setting history scre...