ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,985, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power receiving apparatus, control method of power receiving apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Takahiro Shichino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit 201 of a power receiving apparatus 200 performs a predetermined communication to a power transmitting apparatus 100 via a first communication unit 204 such that power transfer from the power transmitting apparatus 100 is continued, in a case where a control communication using the first communication unit 204 is switched to a control communication using a second communication unit 202."

The patent w...