US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,074, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" was invented by Takashi Sawada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information concerning a contract of a subscription service of the image forming apparatus; a storage unit that stores the information concerning the contract of the subscription service acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that sets, based on a fact that the information concerning the contract of the su...