ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,755, issued on July 1, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Determining print modes of print apparatuses" was invented by Maria Nieves Torres Planells (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Javier Castro Soriano (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Alexandre Rodriguez Llofriu (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Maurizio Bordone (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print mode determination method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving image data defining parameters of pixels of an image to be printed using a print apparatus; identifying, based on the image data, a first fill area i...