ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,610, issued on June 24, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yoshiki Kogiso (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a communication device configured to communicate with a wireless tag of a sheet, an image forming mechanism configured to form an image and transfer the image to the sheet according to a control value, and a controller configured to: receive a job for printing an image on a sheet and performing tag processing on the tag, control the communication device to perform the tag processing on the tag, determine whether the process...