ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,993, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Device management service system, controlling method of device management service system, and storage medium" was invented by Tsuyoshi Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a notification event occurs in an image processing apparatus installed in a real world, a device management tool/service notifies a content of the notification event to an administrator avatar of the image processing apparatus in a virtual office as a device management avatar, and accepts an instruction from the administrator avatar via the device management avatar in the virtual of...