US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 5 for "Communication apparatus capable of carrying out near field communication with a target apparatus, control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,884, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus capable of carrying out near field communication with a target apparatus, control method, and program" was invented by Takeshi Matsushita (Fujisawa, Japan) and Mitsuru Konji (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus capable of performing near field communication acquires communication information of a target apparatus through the near field communication, determines whether or not the target apparatus is connected to an access point to which the communication apparatus is connected, on the basis of the communication info...