ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,771, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"User interface processing method and image processing apparatus" was invented by Toshihiko Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Toshiya Miyai (Osaka, Japan), Suguru Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor records operation history information indicating a history of operations to an operation portion that corresponds to a plurality of setting screens for each user regarding each of a plurality of functions of an image processing apparatus, in a nonvolatile storage device. The processor determines ...