US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,309, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Naoya Kakutani (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus capable of connecting to an external apparatus via a network includes a setting unit configured to enable a function of transmitting an issuance request for a digital certificate to the external apparatus at a previously designated date and time or with a previously designated cycle and acquiring a digital certificate from the external apparatus in response...