US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Device management system and method of controlling device management system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,808, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Device management system and method of controlling device management system" was invented by Takuji Shimamawari (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a backup management unit of an image forming apparatus detects a change in a setup environment of the image forming apparatus, the backup management unit transmits information of changed setting values and information of the setup environment to a backup management server. A data management unit of the backup management server associates the setting information received from the image forming apparatu...