US Patent Issued to CANON on June 24 for "Information processing apparatus that updates programs and control method of the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,202, issued on June 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus that updates programs and control method of the same" was invented by Masahiro Kajimoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a first storage unit configured to store a boot program, and a backup of the boot program, and a second storage unit configured to store an updating program that is activated by the boot program and used for updating a program. A control unit executes a first updating process that updates at least the boot program by executing the updating program after executing the...