ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,232, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, system, and method that changes output intensity or received threshold based on an image forming operation" was invented by Yoshiki Kogiso (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a forming unit, a communication unit, a reader/writer unit, a reader unit, and a determination unit. If the forming unit executes the image formation on the print medium, the reader/writer unit is configured to execute, using the communication unit, an operation of writing data into a wire...