US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,715, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus" was invented by Tsunahito Nakashita (Chiba, Japan), Tsutomu Kubota (Chiba, Japan), Motoki Koshigaya (Saitama, Japan), Tatsuya Ogawa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hidetaka Tabuchi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus including at least one unit that receives a user operation, the information processing apparatus includes an ultraviolet irradiation device that performs disinfection processing for disinfecting at least a part of the at least one unit,...