ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,984, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capture apparatus and control method" was invented by Yuki Okada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus transitions to a standby state where a predetermined function that controls the image capture apparatus via a general-purpose interface can be executed in a case where a request for second information for controlling the image capture apparatus has been received from an information processing apparatus in response to transmission of first information indicating that the image capture apparatus can be controlled via the general-purp...