US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,006, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus" was invented by Motoki Koshigaya (Saitama, Japan), Tsutomu Kubota (Chiba, Japan), Tatsuya Ogawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Hidetaka Tabuchi (Chiba, Japan) and Tsunahito Nakashita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a sterilization unit that performs sterilization with an ultraviolet light source a part of the information processing apparatus that is operated on, a management unit that manages lifetime information corresponding to a prod...