ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,458, issued on June 16, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Machine learning preflight printing system and methods" was invented by Javier A. Morales (Rochester, N.Y.) and Matthew Morikawa (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing system includes a printing device. The printing system also includes a preflight system that checks incoming print jobs for possible errors or issues before commencing printing operations. The preflight system implements a generative adversarial network to facilitate the identification of possible problems with printing. The generative adversarial network includ...