US Patent Issued to CANON on July 15 for "Information processing apparatus capable of being quickly started, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,922, issued on July 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus capable of being quickly started, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Naoto Sasahara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus which is capable of being quickly started. In the information processing apparatus, a USB device is capable of being removably connected to a downstream port. In the information processing apparatus, at startup of the information processing apparatus, a setting process for making the USB device ready for use is started in a connecting state in which th...