ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,085, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Account management system, account management method, information terminal and medium" was invented by Yousuke Sugai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An account management system is provided. The system comprises an information terminal; a peripheral device; an account management server; and a peripheral device management server. The information terminal transmits a request a first token from the peripheral device management server and receives the first token. The information terminal transmits an account registration request for the peripheral device, togethe...