ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,112, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus, image processing method, and medium" was invented by Akitoshi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kentaro Yano (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus connected to an image forming unit and a reading unit is provided. The apparatus generates image data based on document data described in a page description language, encodes the document data to be multiplexed on the image data, outputs the image data to the image forming unit, restores the multiplexed document data from the image data read by the reading u...