US Patent Issued to Canon on May 26 for "Image forming system for determining recording material capacity requirement" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,019, issued on May 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system for determining recording material capacity requirement" was invented by Kaoru Tsunoda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Daisuke Momiyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that receives a print job including number-of-prints information, print size information, and print date-and-time information, and an acquisition unit that acquires the number-of-prints information, the size information, the date-and-time information, and capacity information indicating the maximum number of sheets to be acco...