US Patent Issued to Sharp on Feb. 3 for "Information processing apparatus and image processing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,593, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and image processing system" was invented by Hiroyuki Ishikura (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, appropriate virus infection countermeasure processing is executed using a new virus scanning engine or the like, and a likelihood that the image forming apparatus may be infected with a computer virus is reduced.An information processing apparatus includes a print data acquirer that acquires print data, a virus detector that executes predetermined infection countermeasure processing on the print data...