US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Oct. 27 for "Quiet mode control for image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,427, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Quiet mode control for image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Yoshinari (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuma Hosoda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mao Morita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive a change request for a change to a quiet mode in an image forming apparatus that is operating in a normal mode and to which a printing instruction has been issued; and display the change request for the change to the quiet mode on an operation screen of the im...