ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,536, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and control method for information processing apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Yamashita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus verifies, by using a fact that a first encryption scheme is supported and a second encryption scheme is not supported, whether or not a first signature corresponding to the first encryption scheme is valid, verifies, by using a fact that the first encryption scheme is not supported and the second encryption scheme is supported, whether or not a second signature correspondin...