ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,260, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Kanako Takeda (Tokyo) and Koichiro Wanda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method including instructing a notification apparatus to issue a notification in a case where a video image capturing an entrance of a specific location includes an unregistered person moving toward the specific location, and deactivating the notification by the notification apparatus in a case where a video image capturing the specific location includes a pre-registe...