ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,084, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Kimio Hayashi (Tokyo), Yoshiji Kanamoto (Tokyo) and Toshihiko Iida (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus receives manuscript data associated with order data and acquires the number of manuscript data to be received in association with the order data. In addition, it is determined, based on the number of received manuscript data and the acquired number, whether the manuscript data associated with the order data have been received."
The patent was filed on Nov....