ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,956, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Electronic apparatus and accessory" was invented by Hiromichi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Kei Tohyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Shu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromi Hayasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouji Ikeda (Tokyo), Yuhei Hattori (Tokyo), Kenji Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinobu Okano (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes an accessory shoe via which an accessory is to be detachably attached to the electronic apparatus. The accessory shoe includes a plurality of contacts that is electrically connectable to the accessory and arranged in a row, and i...