US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Image processing apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus having a chat service, and storage medium therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,405, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus having a chat service, and storage medium therefor" was invented by Masumi Tabuki (Oita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image of a document and generates image data, a transmission unit that transmits the image data, and a reception unit that receives an instruction from the information processing apparatus. Based on the received instruction, th...