US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 6 for "Control system, image forming apparatus, terminal apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,787, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Control system, image forming apparatus, terminal apparatus, and control method" was invented by Rika Ichiu (Sakai City, Japan) and Chikako Tomita (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes an image forming apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The image forming apparatus determines whether the image forming apparatus is in a state conforming to a security requirement in response to a connection request from the terminal apparatus used by a user who has an administrator privilege; and transmits, to the terminal apparatus, display inf...