US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Jan. 20 for "Image forming apparatus and control method with user authorization" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,958, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and control method with user authorization" was invented by Ryuichi Aoyama (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, in a non-transitory storage medium, a computer program is recorded so that a computer of an image forming apparatus executes a code acquisition step, a transmission step, an authority setting acquisition step, and a reflection step. The code acquisition step is to acquire a code for acquiring authority setting information including execution authority indicating a function to be permitte...