ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,506, issued on July 8, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for receiving device identifying information and selecting a target device from at least one function executing device" was invented by Hirotaka Asakura (Nagoya, Japan) and Longlong Ruan (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal performs: in response to receipt of first identifying information, from a first function-executing device via a first wireless connection established between the terminal and the first function-executing device, receiving, when the computer program is launched by an OS prog...