ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,892, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Data processing device and image forming system capable of easily selecting image data of highest quality" was invented by Takuma Fujikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Nobushiro Fujiwara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device includes a collation device that decides whether first image data and second image data originate from same image data, a comparison device that compares image quality between the first image data and the second image data, when the first image data and the second image data originate from the same image...