ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,017, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pre-rendering system for online and offline documents" 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: "Pre-rendering prior receiving a command to print is disclosed for a pre-rendering system for online and offline documents. In an example thereof, a plug-in is hosted in a computing device. A system service operative by the computing device is configured for receiving commands from the plug-in. The system service is configured to issue an instruction respo...