ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,132, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing system and method" was invented by Keiko Kamoi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first printing system configured to cooperate with a second printing system includes a first reception unit configured to receive a first request relating to printing from a first printing apparatus, a first transmission unit configured to transmit, to the first printing apparatus, print data corresponding to a user that is an issuer of the first request, a second reception unit configured to receive a second request relating to printing from a client terminal based o...