ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,720, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Methods and printing system for peer-to-peer output management" was invented by Javier A. Morales (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peer-to-peer network of printing devices is configured to share printing device information, such as job queue status, configuration information, and resource information for automated load balancing, capability matching, failover, and print splitting operations. A digital front end (DFE) of a printing device establishes connections with the DFEs of other printing devices to manage output within the pee...