US Patent Issued to Sharp on Dec. 30 for "Image-forming apparatus that consumes less power and generates less noise during executing a warm-up action" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,851, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Image-forming apparatus that consumes less power and generates less noise during executing a warm-up action" was invented by Yuichi Kaku (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-forming apparatus includes a human detecting sensor, an operation acceptor, an image former, one or more controllers, and one or more power supply controllers, and the controller determines whether the operation acceptor accepted an operation other than a print execution instruction after a sleep state returned to a standby state, causes the image former to execute a predetermine...