US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Jan. 20 for "Function execution device and communication terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,151, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Function execution device and communication terminal" was invented by Satoshi Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing an authentication state of a function execution device to a communication terminal is described. In some examples, the authentication state indicates whether authentication information is needed from the communication terminal before the communication terminal can request performance of one or more functions performable by the function execution device. In other examples, the communication termin...