ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,553, issued on July 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and control method of the same" was invented by Takashi Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention directs to an information processing apparatus comprising a nonvolatile storage unit configured to store at least first management information including information regarding number of sectors in a storage area, second management information including information regarding a partition, and third management information for restoring the second management information. The information processing apparatus comprises verifying v...