US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Oct. 14 for "Role management system, role management device, and multifunction printer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,564, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Role management system, role management device, and multifunction printer" was invented by Ryuichi Aoyama (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a role management system includes a first management unit, a second management unit, an acquisition unit, and a first control unit. The first management unit manages a role assigned to a user identified by an identifier in correlation with the identifier. The second management unit manages a role to be assigned to an assignee identified by an identifier in correlation with the ide...