ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,423, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus and image forming method" was invented by Wataru Nishii (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a data inputter that receives job data pertaining to a print job; a job controller that stores job data in the memory as partial data to sequentially print received portions of the job data when the virus check is disabled or unnecessary and that stores the job data as a single file when the virus check is enabled; a data analyzer that analyzes the job data to generate data for image formation; and a virus ...