ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,037, issued on April 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Yamamizu (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include an information processing apparatus including a processor configured to store an operation history of the information processing apparatus as a log, a first memory configured to store a program to be executed by the processor, a detector configured to detect modification of the program stored in the first memory, a second memory configured to store a recovery program for recovering the program in response to the detect...