ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,690, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Display control device and display control method" was invented by Shimpei Kitai (Chiba, Japan), Ken Yanagibashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Noboru Omori (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimichi Ise (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosaku Endo (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuta Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuhide Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device of the present invention acquires information on a medium temperature of a first recording medium mounted to an electronic device. The display control device performs control to display, on a display, an item and time-series change in...