US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Communication apparatus and method for managing communications between different networks" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,242, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and method for managing communications between different networks" was invented by Tetsuya Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to: wait for connections from other communication apparatuses to a first network built by the communication apparatus, acquire connection information from a first other communication apparatus connected to the first network, search for a second netwo...