US Patent Issued to CANON on March 24 for "Image forming apparatus capable of controlling display unit and image forming unit based on license state, and control method for the image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,738, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus capable of controlling display unit and image forming unit based on license state, and control method for the image forming apparatus" was invented by Yosui Naito (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus which is capable of, even when an operation restriction or function restriction is enforced in the image forming apparatus, making a restricted operation or function available for license authentication. A display unit and an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus are controlled based on a license state. Th...