ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,446, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kyohei Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first operation member, an assigning unit configured to assign one of a plurality of functions to the first operation member, and a second operation member configured to enable a user to provide a setting relating to a specific function among the plurality of functions. The assigning unit assigns the specific function to the first operation member according to an operation of the second operation member."
The patent was ...