US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Communication apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,071, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus" was invented by Wahei Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus for performing communication in a first mode of wirelessly communicating with a terminal apparatus via an external wireless base station or in a second mode without intervention of the external wireless base station, comprising communication means for executing a first authentication method used in communication in the first mode, and a second authentication method used in communication in the first mode and using an authentication server, and con...