ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,148, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus for determining job priority based on installed roll media, control method of printing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Mitsuaki Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a printing apparatus when a print job that can belong to the same print group as that of a first priority job is input newly during printing of the first priority job and the newly input print job is in a printable state, the newly input print job is added to the same print group as that of the first priority job, and in a case where the newly input print ...