ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,567, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MUTOH INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Raster image conversion device and program, and printing system" was invented by Norishige Kakuno (Suwa-gun, Japan) and Kazuhiro Tokunari (Suwa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A raster image conversion device is inputted with printing data and converts this printing data into raster image data to be outputted to a printing device. A storage unit stores printing environment data stipulating conditions for converting the printing data into the raster image data. An operating unit sets or edits the printing environment data. A conversion processing unit co...