ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,640, issued on April 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pre-rendering during idle time for subsequent printing" was invented by Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo (Glendora, Calif.) and Mohamed Al Sayed Mostafa (Hawthorne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods relating generally to pre-rendering prior receiving a command to print are disclosed. In such a method and system therefor, a determination is made that a document is open. An idle time is identified to pre-render at least a portion of the document prior to assertion of a print command therefor. At least the portion of the documen...