ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,828, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Printing system and methods for enhanced paper selection" was invented by Javier A. Morales (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing system receives a print job. The print job includes parameters such as dimensions and print attributes. A plurality of papers is accessed in a paper catalog available for a printing device within the printing system. A group of papers is formed based on the dimensions. If the dimensions are for a non-standard size paper, then a standard size of available paper is determined. The smallest standard...