US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on April 21 for "Image formation device, printing system, and printing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,956, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image formation device, printing system, and printing method" was invented by Yutaka Kukitsu (Odawara Kanagawa, Japan), Sou Miyazaki (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan), Yusuke Hamada (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan) and Kouichirou Nishi (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry of an image formation device transmits user identification information and device identification information to a server, receives an indication of a valid medium associated with the user identification information from the server, and determines whether the valid medium is con...