ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,228, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and control method" was invented by Ritsuto Sako (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information about software applicable to the printing apparatus from a management server, a notification unit configured to transmit the acquired information about the software as a device information notification to the print system, a request unit configured to issue an event request to the print system, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information about software used for an ...