ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,310, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium" was invented by Hitoshi Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a requester unit configured to issue a request for transmission of a packet, a transfer unit configured to transfer the packet based on the request, a transmission unit configured to transmit the packet transferred by the transfer unit and to output a timestamp based on the transmission of the packet, and a control unit configured to control output of a tag associating the packet with the timestamp base...