US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on June 16 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,722, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Haru Hikita (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Akiyama (Tagata Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Yamashita (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroki Kinoshita (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryota Matsui (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses related to an image forming apparatus are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a controller and a display. The controller detects a malfunction of the image forming apparatus and calculates an amount of carbon dioxide emitted in a visit of a servi...