ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,594, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method of sending print data" was invented by Yasuhiro Soeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Miura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of sending print data, including: generating a first data part with a fixed data length; generating a second data part with a variable data length; and combining the first and second data parts in a predetermined order and sending the resulting print data. The first data part includes multiple information pieces. The second data part is capable of including multiple additional informat...