ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,284, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hirohiko Inohiza (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus for executing wireless communication complying with an IEEE 802.11 standard series by establishing a plurality of links with another apparatus updates an encryption key individually set for each of the plurality of links by executing predetermined processing including transmission of a predetermined message to the other apparatus. In the predetermined processing, the communication apparatus ...