US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 5 for "Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,970, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Yuichi Kondo (Chiba, Japan) and Satohiro Oga (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to read an image of a document and to generate an image file based on the read image, a transmission unit configured to transmit the image file generated by the generation unit, a determination unit configured to determine a file name of the image file, and a reception unit configured to receive patient information from an information process...