ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,003, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming system" was invented by Kohichi Murakami (Sakai City, Japan), Yasuhiro Nakai (Sakai City, Japan), Yasutomo Hayano (Sakai City, Japan) and Masao Saeda (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes: a server; a user terminal; and an image forming device, wherein the server includes: a server storage that stores print data in association with user authentication information; and a code issuer that issues a code, the server transmits the code, and, acquires the print data and transmits the print data, the user termi...