They were born as a network printing system, and became a US citizen later in life.

I see you, Wintermute, I see you.

Lawful Permanent Resident - https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/lawful-permanent-res....

It's the official status of green card holders.

I also searched the web: Laryngopharyngeal Reflux

(second result was Lawful Permanent Resident; make of that what you will)

I’m with you on this, especially this year LPR seems to stand for license plate recognition (Flock and others) much more often.

tried searching for "noodlesUK" and didn't find anything meaningful

Several results on the first page of Google for "lpr acronym" brings up "lawful permanent resident" or similar on my end.

Legal permanent resident