ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,355, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for generating a name using characters recognized in image data" was invented by Keisuke Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus generates a name using characters recognized in image data, assign the name to the image data, and store the image data; makes a request for approval by a user regarding the name, transmit the image data to an external apparatus after the image data is approved by the user, and deletes the image data; in a case...