US Patent Issued to Canon on March 18 for "Network system and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,767, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Network system and method" was invented by Hirohiko Hamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system including a device management system configured to provide a first service and a second service which relate to a network device, and the network device having a first function includes a first transmission unit, in the network device, configured to, in response to the first function having been updated, transmit a first request to the device management system by using the first function and a second transmission unit configured to, in response to th...