US Patent Issued to CANON on March 4 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,136, issued on March 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hirofumi Tsuruta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes obtaining arrangement information on an object already arranged on a second page, which is different from a first page being edited, wherein, in the obtaining, if there is a first object that is already arranged on the first page, the obtaining obtains arrangement information on the first object, and snapping an edit-target object on the first page based on the obtained...