ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,791, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus capable of performing control based on temperature and control method" was invented by Yuji Ueda (Tokyo), Jun Kamiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Toriumi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of thermometers and a control unit that performs control to restrict an operation of the electronic apparatus in a case where one of the plurality of temperatures has reached the threshold temperature. The control unit performs control to obtain a first difference between the tempe...