ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,823, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus that determines network environment of a device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Takami Eguchi (Tokyo), Nobuhiro Tagashira (Chiba, Japan), Ayuta Kawazu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Minetomo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that performs acquiring first information used for determining a network environment to which a device belongs, and second information indicating the network environment to which t...