US Patent Issued to Canon on May 20 for "Image forming apparatus for determining a communication channel to be used in a wireless communication" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,148, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus for determining a communication channel to be used in a wireless communication" was invented by Keigo Tsuchiya (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where an image forming apparatus operates as a master station that determines a communication channel to be used in wireless communication, the image forming apparatus transmits a second trigger frame, which is compliant with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard and includes information indicating that carrier sense is to be executed, to a slave sta...