US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 9 for "Image forming apparatus configured to perform initialization process for first consumable and second consumable attached to main casing in accordance with received instruction" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,665, issued on June 9, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus configured to perform initialization process for first consumable and second consumable attached to main casing in accordance with received instruction" was invented by Tadao Kyotani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing to which a first consumable including a first consumable memory and a second consumable including a second consumable memory are attached; a controller; and a main memory. The first consumable memory stores therein first lifetime information related to a service...