ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,146, issued on July 29, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Economic printing mode" was invented by Hui Yuan (Beijing), Kun Shi (Beijing), Lingjun Kong (Beijing), Mangui She (Beijing) and Hui Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems to implement an economic printing mode are described. In one example, a computer system may provide a user interface specifying multiple selectable levels associated with economic printing mode. The source printing content may be transformed to generate target printing content that is printable using a lower ink consumption compared to the source printing...