US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Communication apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,628, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" was invented by Wahei Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus comprises a shift unit configured to shift, based on a start of processing for connection between the communication apparatus and a predetermined external apparatus supporting authentication processing by a predetermined authentication method using an authentication server in a state in which the communication apparatus operates in a first state in which a process...