ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,764, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Printing with media roll changes and nonproduction frames" was invented by Thomas J. Peck (Corvallis, Ore.), Shane Shivji (Corvallis, Ore.) and Claire O'Cull (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example of the disclosure, first and second print jobs are received at a printer. The first and second print jobs each include production frames. The first and second print jobs are printed with a media roll change occurring during printing. A first finishing device information nonproduction ("FDIN") frame and a second FDIN fram...