ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,144, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Print file preprocessing mechanism" was invented by Justin Coulter (Boulder, Colo.) and David Ward (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors to receive a print job file including page content data, traverse each of a plurality of subset ranges of the page content data to generate page element metadata based on the page content data, wherein the page element metadata comprises identified page elements and the logical pages that correspond to the identified page elements, aggregate the page element meta...