US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 25 for "Image processing apparatus and malware checking method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,922, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus and malware checking method" was invented by Yukinori Mizuguchi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a data receiver which receives, from outside, data including user information and device information; a storage which stores the data; a malware checker which checks whether the received data includes malware; and a reception restrictor which restricts, on or after detection of the malware from the data by the checking, reception of at least specific data from the outside. The specific...