ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,078, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method" was invented by Makoto Yoshimi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: set, if a state of waiting for a result of processing from an external apparatus is established in a case where the processor executes a processing request for which the processor needs to request an external apparatus to perform the processing and receive the result of the processing from the external apparatus, identification inform...