US Patent Issued to CANON on July 1 for "Shoe apparatus, accessory, accessory shoe apparatus, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,970, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Shoe apparatus, accessory, accessory shoe apparatus, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yoshinobu Okano (Saitama, Japan), Kenji Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromichi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Takayuki Shu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromi Hayasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouji Ikeda (Tokyo), Yuhei Hattori (Tokyo) and Kei Tohyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe apparatus attachable to and detachable from an accessory shoe apparatus of an electronic apparatus in a first direction includes a plurality of connection terminals arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the...