ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,530, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Illumination apparatus and its control method" was invented by Yoshiro Ichihara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuo Takatori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination apparatus is communicatively connected to an image pickup apparatus and configured to emit illumination light. The illumination apparatus performs light emission control of the illumination light under the custom light emitting condition by reading the custom light emitting condition corresponding to a custom imaging condition from the memory in a case where imaging under the custom imaging condition set ...