US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 11 for "Image forming apparatus and user registration method for allowing restriction of reuse of a login name" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,015, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and user registration method for allowing restriction of reuse of a login name" was invented by Harunobu Mori (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, personal identification information for identifying a user is associated with the user and as such registered. If a request for deletion of a registered user is received, whether to forbid reuse of the personal identification information, which is associated with the registered user for which the request for deletion is received, is determined. A requ...