ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,327, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Takayuki Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouta Murasawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Ogasawara (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinjiro Hori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akitoshi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor, and a memory that stores a program which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to function as an acceptance unit configured to accept from a user a target impression of...