US Patent Issued to Sharp on Nov. 3 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,185, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenji Onogi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus comprises a controller referring to a service setting storage before shifting to a power-saving state, when a request related to a start of an automatic printing-unnecessary service that is a predetermined service that does not start printing in response to the reception of the request is set not to be received in at least the power-saving state, adding a first type attribute to a pattern corresponding to a predetermined return packet a...