ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,953, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device with recognizing instruction function of digital camera with printer, operation method for control device of digital camera with printer, and operation program for control device of digital camera with printer" was invented by Shinichiro Sonoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotoshi Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuya Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hajime Terayoko (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processor recognizes a first act for an imaging and print instruction that combines an imaging instruction and an instruction to print an image, the first...