US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Feb. 17 for "Image forming apparatus that displays information about a consumable" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,445, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that displays information about a consumable" was invented by Marie Amaki (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Mikami (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoya Imai (Yokohama, Japan) and Daichi Inoue (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect the presence or absence of a malfunction and opening and closing of a covering; and cause a display device to display information about a consumable such that a reset operation of a counter that is set regarding the consumable is receivable...