ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,248, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Zhuhai, China).

"Apparatus, method, and system for monitoring image-forming apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Zhongsong Liu (Beijing), Yuanpei Zhao (Beijing), Guodong Wang (Zhuhai, China) and Heting Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus, a method and a system for monitoring an image-forming apparatus, and a storage medium. The apparatus includes a device search module, configured to search and read an image-forming apparatus and image-forming-apparatus information in a local area network; an int...