US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 20 for "Image forming apparatus and execution method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,493, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and execution method" was invented by Mayuko Yoshida (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an acquirer capable of acquiring a trigger from a terminal apparatus; a controller that executes a service communicable with an application executed on the terminal apparatus; a display; and an operation inputter. In a case where a trigger to start the service is acquired from the operation inputter, the controller displays on the display, a confirmation screen with which whether the application is in...