ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,990, issued on July 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and printing system" was invented by Naohiro Kaneko (Matsumoto, Japan), Hiroshi Kaiho (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hideaki Kitazawa (Suwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server apparatus is connected to a printer in a communicable manner. The printer includes a first printer and other printers. The server apparatus includes a first acquisition section that acquires, when an error occurs in the first printer, error occurrence information indicating that the error has occurred ...