ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,858, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming system that manages consumption information of valid consumable item among plurality of consumable items" was invented by Yuki Fukasawa (Osaka, Japan), Ryota Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Masanori Taguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus. In the image forming apparatus, a first controller designates consumable items that can supply a consumable material, as valid consumable items, generates consumable item setting information i...