US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 11 for "Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,527, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Yuichi Yagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus obtains first update firmware data from a server apparatus, holds the first update firmware data in a volatile storage medium, and stores version information of the first update firmware data in a non-volatile storage medium. The apparatus performs an update process of updating the firmware stored in the non-volatile storage medium, using the first update firmware data held in the volatile...