ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,889, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Ayuta Kawazu (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Tagashira (Chiba, Japan), Takami Eguchi (Tokyo) and Yuki Minetomo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus, comprising a setting unit that executes a security setting on the information processing apparatus based on an installation environment of the information processing apparatus, wherein the setting unit executes the security setting again at a specific timing."

The ...