ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,763, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and control method" was invented by Kimihiko Hiyoshi (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a storage device and a processing circuit. The storage device is configured to store a malfunction log in the image forming apparatus. The processing circuit is configured to control, if a job includes an operation relating to the malfunction log, a start timing of at least one of the operation and a next operation following the operation in the job."
The patent was filed on Aug. 10, 2023, under Applic...