US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Communication apparatus, communication control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,852, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, communication control method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Torikai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a recording medium having recorded therein an operating system OS, a first application that operates on the OS, and a second application that operates on the OS. The first application causes a processor to request the OS to establish connection for communication between the first application and an external apparatus, obtain identification information of the external apparatus, and store the iden...