ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,004, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Server, management system, and control method therefor" was invented by Shinya Endo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server configured to communicate with a printing apparatus to which an ink cartridge integrated with a printhead is attached and an order system configured to perform processing for delivering a replacement ink cartridge in a case where a number of times of an ink remaining amount of the ink cartridge falls below a threshold for a prescribed number of times includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the order system, the ink rema...