ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,251, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method for transmitting image data with fax transmission instruction to fax apparatus using chat service, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Tomoki Uchida (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus communicates with a fax apparatus and provides a chat service. The information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts an execution instruction on a channel of the chat service from a user and a transmission unit that transmits, based on acceptance of the execution ins...