US Patent Issued to Canon on March 4 for "Electronic device and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,588, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and method" was invented by Hiroki Kitanosako (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a control unit and a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a power supply device. The control unit determines whether or not a predetermined message relating to an authentication communication is received from the power supply device via the communication unit, and controls the electronic device to limit operation of the electronic device in a case where the predetermined message is received from the power supply device via t...