ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,127, issued on July 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yuki Kamamori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiromu Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an information processing apparatus operable to send, to a client, region information in response to a region specifying request received from the client via the Internet, wherein the apparatus comprises a managing unit which manages mapping information in which user information and region information are associated, a c...