ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,397, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus and method for controlling deletion of setting history" was invented by Kenji Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Harunobu Mori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a storage capable of storing a setting history of a job related to image processing, and a controller that accepts a deletion request of the setting history, in which, when the deletion request of the setting history is accepted, the controller identifies the setting history to be deleted as a deletion target according to whether a user auth...