US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Image forming apparatus and power control method for the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,795, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and power control method for the same" was invented by Atsushi Hikichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus is controlled as follows. In a case where a first controller receives an end process event, the first controller that causes the image forming apparatus to transition to a power saving state causes the image forming apparatus to transition to a hibernation state in a case where transition to the hibernation state is enabled, and loads a program for a second controller into the memory and causes the image forming appa...