US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 25 for "Image forming apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,918, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and control method" was invented by Hideki Seto (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit that performs setting of a system, an image formation section that forms an image according to the setting, and a processing unit that performs a process for a quarantine against a virus. The setting unit performs setting concerning security. The processing unit implements the quarantine against a virus if the setting concerning security has been changed."

The patent was filed on June 7, 202...