US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Image forming apparatus and control method for managing a job history" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,991, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and control method for managing a job history" was invented by Yoshinobu Hamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus that executes a job for output processing of image data includes a storage unit configured to store job information about an executed job and image data corresponding to an output based on the job as a job history corresponding to the job, and a recording unit configured to record information about an error that has occurred when the job history is stored, wherein, in conversion processing for stor...