ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,509, issued on April 7, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable control program" was invented by Takeshi Tamada (Toyohashi, Japan), Takahiro Tsujimoto (Toyokawa, Japan) and Masahiro Kamiya (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a display section and a hardware processor that controls at least the display section, wherein the hardware processor causes the display section to display first information regarding a brand of the recording medium or a manufacturer of the recording medium, and second infor...