ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,201, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rebooting system for an image processing apparatus peripheral that extends a timer for rebooting to perform processing for a communication error between operation panel and main body" was invented by Noriyuki Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rebooting system includes: a processing apparatus configured to perform processing; and an operation panel configured to receive an operation on the processing apparatus. The processing apparatus includes first power supply control circuitry that controls power supply in the processing apparatus, a timer, fir...