US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 19 for "Information processing apparatus and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,345, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Yoshikazu Hayami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus that executes authentication processing using authentication information received from a terminal includes a first authentication unit configured to execute first authentication processing using second authentication information and preliminarily managed authentication information, the second authentication information being obtained by encrypting first authentication information received from the terminal, ...