US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Sept. 15 for "Image forming device transitioning to sleep state or off-mode state from standby state" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,905, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming device transitioning to sleep state or off-mode state from standby state" was invented by Kazuki Ichikawa (Gamagori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming device, a controller transitions the image forming device to a sleep state from a standby state under a condition that a first duration elapses with the image forming device maintained in the standby state since a start of the standby state. The controller transitions the image forming device to an off-mode state from the standby state under a condition that a second dura...