US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 12 for "Power supply control apparatus, method and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,147, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power supply control apparatus, method and recording apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Aida (Tokyo), Yosuke Ezumi (Ibaraki, Japan), Takuhiro Ogushi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukinori Nishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideyuki Ueki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply control apparatus comprises a first power supply supplying power to a controller and a second power supply supplying power to an operation unit and a power controller. The operation unit receives an operation for switching the first power supply on and off. The power controller is operable to turn on t...