ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,613, issued on Sept. 1, 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 receiver that receives a manual input operation via an operation device and a voice instruction via a microphone; and a controller that executes a job on the basis of setting received by the receiver. The controller performs control of not executing a predefined job of the image for...