ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,393, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Electronic apparatus and accessory" was invented by Hiromichi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Kei Tohyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Shu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromi Hayasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouji Ikeda (Tokyo), Yuhei Hattori (Tokyo), Kenji Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinobu Okano (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of contacts electrically connectable to an accessory and arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached. The contacts include an attachment detection contact to detect an ...