ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,393, issued on March 17, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and server" was invented by Masaaki Sei (Tagata Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a tag communication unit configured to communicate with wireless tags, an image forming unit configured to form image on media carrying wireless tags, and a processor. The processor is configured to permit the image forming unit to form an image on a medium when the tag communication unit successfully writes data to a wireless tag carried by the medium, and indicate the image formed on...