US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 10 for "Method of controlling information processing apparatus, editing intermediate data, and converting edited intermediate data into printing data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,354, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method of controlling information processing apparatus, editing intermediate data, and converting edited intermediate data into printing data" was invented by Tetsuya Shiohara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function includes: adding information on an extended function to printing function information used in the printing data generation soft...