ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,151, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing system, printing system control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Mutsuno (Tokyo), Masaki Kashiwagi (Hiratsuka, Japan), Akinori Takeo (Yokohama, Japan) and Satoshi Totsuka (Toride, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing system includes a printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet, a sheet processer that executes sheet processing, and a sheet detection sensor that detects a sheet on which the sheet processing is performed not in association with the printing of an image, where the printing of an image is restricted in response to ...