US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 11 for "Accessory, method of controlling accessory, electronic device, method of controlling electronic device, communication system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,883, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Accessory, method of controlling accessory, electronic device, method of controlling electronic device, communication system, and storage medium" was invented by Yuichi Ariga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory and an electronic device capable of suppressing malfunction and failure of the accessory when a command to be executed by the accessory is transmitted from the electronic device to the accessory and reducing the memory capacity. The accessory is communicably connected to the electronic device. The accessory includes a communication unit that communicat...