ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,671, issued on July 14, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Print data generation device and print data generation method" was invented by Yo Izawa (Kyoto, Japan), Kenta Nagai (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroshi Nishide (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a print data generation device, accessory preset data including accessory configuration information necessary for printing an accessory image is held in advance in an accessory preset data holding unit. A list of preset names each identifying accessory configuration information associated with a processing type selected by an operator is presented, and an ac...