ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,021, issued on July 14, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Communication device, computer-readable storage medium, and method for using appropriate access control method" was invented by Akihito Uno (Iwakura, Japan) and Satoko Ando (Chita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a method storage and a controller. The method storage stores method information indicating access control methods usable by the communication device. The indicated access control methods include a configured control method that is currently set to be used by the communication device, and a candidate control metho...