US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Jan. 28 for "Image forming apparatus and control method using image forming data file" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,723, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and control method using image forming data file" was invented by Takashi Tomiyama (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a forming device, a wireless tag communication device, an external communication interface, and a processor. The forming device forms an image on a sheet including a wireless tag. The wireless tag communication device performs wireless communication with the wireless tag included in the sheet. The external communication interface acquires an image forming data file from anot...