US Patent Issued to Canon on July 1 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,601, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Kiyoshi Iida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a communication circuit that includes a first section for communication conforming to a first protocol, a second section for communication conforming to a second protocol, a shared circuit shared between the first section and the second section is disclosed, a first control unit configured to control communication conforming to the first protocol, and a second communication control unit configured to control communication confo...