ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,361, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus and control method" was invented by Masaki Sakata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mayuko Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a connection unit that connects to a power supply device, and a control unit that controls an operation of the electronic apparatus by power received from the power supply device. When the power supplied from the power supply device is changed based on power consumption of the electronic apparatus, the control unit notifies user for a period until the power supplied from the power supply device is cha...