ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,404, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus, control method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" was invented by Aran Kunimatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus is able to receive, by a predetermined communication protocol, first information for connecting with a first external apparatus and able to output second information for performing authentication, by the predetermined communication protocol. The communication apparatus starts, based on a predetermined trigger, an operation in a waiting state to wait fo...