ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,753, issued on July 28, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Management server and management server system" was invented by Tomohito Someya (Shiojiri, Japan), Yuichi Sugiyama (Shiojiri, Japan) and Tsutomu Kasai (Shimosuwa-Machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a management server which includes a server communication portion communicating with a service providing server and an image forming apparatus, and a server processor. The server processor receives a first request, which is a request including identification information of the image forming apparatus, authentication information, and information ab...