ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,412, issued on March 24, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium therefor to be compliant to a particular program" was invented by Takafumi Kai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions realizing a program set including first and second programs. The second program causes, when executed, an information processing apparatus to obtain identifying information regarding an image processing device and store device information containing the identifying information...