US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 19 for "Communication apparatus, information processing apparatus, and position information management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,963, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, information processing apparatus, and position information management method" was invented by Yasuhiro Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Tanaka (Tokyo) and Mitsuhide Murofushi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus detects a wireless device and calculates a relative position of the detected wireless device with respect to a reference wireless device to be a reference in identifying a position based on a movement amount of the communication apparatus from when the reference wireless devi...