ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,281, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing system, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Junya Arakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image processing apparatus having a scan function and including: a memory storing a program; and a processor executing the program to set a property of a business form file by using results of character recognition processing for a business form image obtained by reading a business form; perform predetermined preprocessing before the character recognition processing for the business form image; and ...