US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 12 for "Service providing system, service providing device, printing apparatus, and method of controlling service providing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,082, issued on May 12, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Service providing system, service providing device, printing apparatus, and method of controlling service providing system" was invented by Yasuaki Hirai (Shiojiri, Japan), Naoshi Furuta (Shiojiri, Japan), Tetsuya Kobayashi (Shiojiri, Japan), Ayana Kodama (Matsumoto, Japan), Hiromi Nishimura (Shiojiri, Japan), Tatsuo Asada (Matsumoto, Japan), Noriyuki Nukaga (Matsumoto, Japan), Satoshi Jobetto (Hiji-Machi, Japan), Fumika Matsuzaki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yoko Chino (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service providing system includes a providing unit that del...