US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 3 for "Authentication apparatus and image-forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,656, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Authentication apparatus and image-forming apparatus" was invented by Ichiro Iijima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenjiro Hori (Saitama, Japan) and Hisashi Enomoto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication apparatus is provided and performs authentication on an authentication target apparatus that includes first allowance data used to determine whether a response to an authentication request from the authentication apparatus is allowed. The authentication apparatus includes timer circuitry measuring a time for which the authentication apparatus is energized; a me...