US Patent Issued to Canon on April 22 for "Image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat service, storage medium, and method of controlling the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,323, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat service, storage medium, and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hikaru Sugita (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat service includes storing information on a transmission source of image data and a talk room in the chat service in association with each other, receiving image data, transferring the received image data to a stored transfer destination in association with the information on the transmission source of...