ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,347, issued on March 11, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printer" was invented by Tomoya Kaneko (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a communication interface and a controller. The controller is configured to: in response to determining that an access condition is satisfied, acquire access information, access a server via the communication interface based on the acquired access information, and receive instruction data transmitted from the server, the instruction data being data indicating a process, the instruction data being configured to indicate data used in the printer; and in re...