ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,489, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Program update system and information processing apparatus" was invented by Kenji Onogi (Sakai, Japan) and Masato Shiozaki (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Plural information processing apparatuses include at least one primary machine and at least one secondary machine. The primary machine includes: a job data management storage that manages and stores acquired job data; an update data acquirer that acquires update data used to update a control program controlling operation of the information processing apparatus; an update data storage that stores the ac...