US Patent Issued to Kyocera Document Solutions on Oct. 21 for "Management of printing operations using enhanced hot folders" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,019, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Management of printing operations using enhanced hot folders" was invented by Javier A. Morales (Rochester, N.Y.) and Timothy F. Donahue (Mentor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Printing operations may use a hot folder. The hot folder includes printing instructions that are applied to print jobs within the hot folder. A file for the print job is stored in the hot folder. More than one file can be retained. The hot folder invokes a script to be executed on the file. A temporary folder is created corresponding to the file. The file is stored in...