ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,596, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and medium and printing system thereof" was invented by Tomoya Miyoshi (Tokyo) and Minoru Fujisawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus configures a virtual printer associated with one or a plurality of image forming apparatuses, manages capability information indicating a capability of each of the one or a plurality of image forming apparatuses associated with the virtual printer, determines, when a print job for the virtual printer is received, whether or not the print jo...