US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus that obtains condition information of part of printing apparatus, method, system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,403, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus that obtains condition information of part of printing apparatus, method, system, and storage medium" was invented by Nobuaki Miyahara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to enable management work such as maintenance of parts of a printing apparatus in an integrated manner. An apparatus according to the present disclosure obtains: first condition information indicating a condition of a constituent part of a printing apparatus, specified based on a life of the part; and second condition information indicating a condition of the part specifie...