US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Control method, access point, control apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,243, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control method, access point, control apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Toshiyuki Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for controlling a connection destination of a station in a network is provided. In the control method, information is obtained regarding transmission power at a first access point in the network. The first access point performs communication complying with an IEEE802.11 standard and is in communication with a station which is connected to the first access point. Control processing is execut...