US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on May 19 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,097, issued on May 19, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shoichi Sakaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Fumiya Sakashita (Osaka, Japan), Junpei Takada (Osaka, Japan), Yumi Hirobe (Osaka, Japan) and Takuma Fujikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a human sensor, a microphone, a receiver, and a controller. In a case where an approaching person is detected by the human sensor when the image forming apparatus is in a power saving state, the controller brings the microphone into a state where a voice input is possible, releases opera...