ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,232, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for processing registration requests" was invented by Wataru Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When receiving a registration request for a user, an information processing apparatus transmits an e-mail including an authentication uniform resource locator (URL) to an e-mail address included in the registration request. The apparatus receives an authentication request for the e-mail address that is transmitted by access to the URL. The apparatus determines whether the reg...