US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Nov. 3 for "Print control device, control method, and program acquiring file saving instruction from user terminal via chat service" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,182, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Print control device, control method, and program acquiring file saving instruction from user terminal via chat service" was invented by Takashi Sera (Shiojiri, Japan), Kohei Yamamoto (Matsumoto, Japan), Katsuhito Kitahara (Matsumoto, Japan) and Masayuki Kobayashi (Fujimi-machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print control device configured to be able to communicate with a terminal device via a chat server providing a chat service includes: a saving instruction acquisition unit configured to acquire a saving instruction giving an instruction to save a file, fro...