ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,835, issued on June 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Scan apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Takuya Ushinohama (Ibaraki, Japan) and Chie Ito (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan apparatus that communicates with an information processing apparatus that provides a service for information sharing in a virtual space, the scan apparatus includes a user interface that accepts, from a user, selection of a group that is managed by the service, a scanner that generates image data by scanning an image of a document, and a communicator transmits the generated image data to the informat...