ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,926, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus with multibank registers for storing source, destination, and setting information for operational circuits" was invented by Takayuki Hara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU), an image processor, multiple bus masters, and a memory, all interconnected through a system bus. The image processor includes a control circuit executing a program stored in an embedded program memory that allows the CPU to write data. The image processor also includes operational circuits that p...