US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on July 28 for "Image forming apparatus configured to determine whether to execute a tag process" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,835, issued on July 28, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus configured to determine whether to execute a tag process" was invented by Yasuhiko Watanabe (Chigasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a wireless tag communication device, a memory that stores information indicating a user in association with an attribute thereof, and a controller configured to acquire a job for forming an image on a sheet using the image forming mechanism, identify a user who has issued the job, determine whether the job includes a tag process for r...