ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,878, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Electronic apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takamitsu Abe (Tokyo) and Yuki Chishima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus comprises a connection unit and a conversion unit configured to convert an input voltage into an output voltage that is 1/N times the input voltage. A control unit requests a power supplying apparatus for a third voltage that is N times a first voltage. In a case where an external apparatus is connected to the connection unit after the request for the third voltage, the control unit requests...