US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,369, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Ryotaro Okuzono (Toride, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object and a power-supply control unit. The power-supply control unit shifts the image forming apparatus to a second power state, in response to a lapse of a predetermined time following no detection of the object, when a job has not been executed until the detection unit detects no object, after the power-supply control unit shif...