ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,056, issued on June 10, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Controlling printer from information processing apparatus" was invented by Kazutaka Yamada (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporting program according to aspects of the present disclosures can be executed by a CPU of a PC and corresponds to a printer connected to the PC. When the PC receives a print instruction to cause the printer to perform printing through a general-use printing program implemented in the OS of the PC, in advance, the supporting program causes the PC to output a preceding operation command to cause the printer to perfor...