ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,749, issued on July 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing printing control program, printing control device, printing method" was invented by Atsushi Yumoto (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a printing control program, the printing control program causing a computer to execute transmission processing, billing processing, and settlement processing. In the transmission processing, print data is transmitted to a printer. In the billin...