ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,498, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus communicable with information processing apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, storage medium, and system" was invented by Yu Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus receives instruction information from an information processing apparatus. In a case where the instruction information is received, the communication apparatus establishes without an external access point a connection for direct communication to another communication apparatus different from the communication apparatus, and uses...