ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,579, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Methods and printing system using page complexity detection for printing operations" was invented by Jayant Bhatt (Torrance, Calif.), Javier A. Morales (Rochester, N.Y.), Mohammed Mostafa (Hawthorne, Calif.), Yoshihiro Osada (Torrance, Calif.) and Arturo Becerra (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print job intended for subsequent printing operations includes complex and simple pages. Each page is analyzed for a page complexity determination. A base page weight related to engine speed of the print engine is compared against a page weigh...