ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,145, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Output system for outputting content acquired from server device and terminal device for outputting reception slip to be used in output of content" was invented by Yasutomo Hayano (Sakai, Japan), Kohichi Murakami (Sakai, Japan), Yasuhiro Nakai (Sakai, Japan), Masaya Ishihara (Sakai, Japan), Kazuhiro Yoshimoto (Sakai, Japan), Masao Saeda (Sakai, Japan), Tetsuji Nishijima (Yao, Japan), Kazuma Ohwaki (Yao, Japan), Akira Okuyama (Yao, Japan) and Noriyuki Suzuki (Yao, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output system includes a terminal device, an image-forming apparat...