ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,030, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Delegable right to print" was invented by Sekhar Sirigiri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A publisher device receives a blockchain transaction of a request to print content from a user device and generates a print stream of the content. The publisher device sends a blockchain transaction of a right to print the print stream to the user device, which sends a blockchain transaction of the right to print to a printing device. The printing device sends a blockchain transaction of an authorization request to print the print stream...