US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 11 for "Information processing apparatus including pattern authentication function and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,662, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus including pattern authentication function and control method" was invented by Yasuhiro Hosoda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus including an operation panel, the information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display, on the operation panel, a plurality of first display objects to receive authentication information, and a reception unit configured to receive the authentication information, based on first display objects selected from among the plurality of firs...