US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Oct. 27 for "Image forming apparatus configured to use real-time clock to determine whether to disable functions and control method of image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,428, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus configured to use real-time clock to determine whether to disable functions and control method of image forming apparatus" was invented by Yukiyoshi Hanayama (Inazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller performs: acquiring payment deadline information from a server via a communication interface, and storing the payment deadline information in a memory, the payment deadline information including a payment deadline of a contract fee for an image forming apparatus that is usable by setting a contract; determining whether c...