ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,263, issued on April 7, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing system including printing device generating image data and data processing server calculating fee to be charged for forming image based on the image data" was invented by Ayaka Hotta (Kitanagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Minamikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Haruka Azechi (Nagoya, Japan), Tetsuya Okuno (Nagoya, Japan) and Yushi Deura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing system includes: a printing device; and a data processing server. A first controller of the printing device is configured to perform: a reading process to read a reading target to ...