ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,193, issued on June 17, was assigned to Seiko Instruments Inc. (Chiba, Japan).

"Terminal device, program, and printing system" was invented by Yuta Sato (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal which is included in a printing system including the terminal device and a printer separately or integrally, the terminal device includes an image generation determination unit configured to determine, when the printer used for printing has a page mode function, an approach for generating a print image for the printing such that use of the page mode function of the printer is given priority; and a command conversion unit configu...