ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,652, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Methods and printing system for verified production in printing operations" was invented by Javier A. Morales (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing system includes an estimation system that provides estimates for ink or toner use for a print job at a target printing device. The estimation system retrieves digital job settings, digital front end (DFE) configuration settings, and printing device configuration settings from the target printing device. The estimate for recurring printing operations is stored at the estimation syste...