ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,975, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and printer" was invented by Kazunari Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Sho Nagase (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a processor configured to: execute a first control if printing time is equal to or greater than predetermined reference time, the printing time being for a case of using a printer to print on basis of print instruction received from user terminal, the first control causing the printer to start printing before user reaches the printer, and ...