ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,078, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power receiving apparatus, power transmitting apparatus, control method of power receiving apparatus, control method of power transmitting apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Mitsuo Komoriya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power receiving apparatus 200 wirelessly receives power from a power transmitting apparatus 100, mutually performs device authentications with the power transmitting apparatus 100, and determines content related to power reception on the basis of a result of a performed device authentication. ...