US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 11 for "Service providing apparatus and method for controlling same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,489, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Service providing apparatus and method for controlling same" was invented by Kenta Yabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service providing apparatus provides a service using a plurality of devices. The apparatus includes a notice obtaining unit configured to obtain a replacement notice specifying a replacement source device, a code issuing unit configured to issue a replacement code associated with the replacement source device specified in the replacement notice, a request obtaining unit configured to obtain a continuation request including the replacement...