ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,143, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Print control device for updating execution order by adding job receiving during execution of job based on fixation temperature in unexecuted job" was invented by Yuka Dobashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique in which even in a case where a new job is added during execution of job-based printing, the printing can be executed efficiently is provided. There are provided a reception unit configured to receive a job to execute printing on a print medium, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a fixation temperature for fixing a printing agent to the...