US Patent Issued to Canon on April 14 for "Access management and control of a display unit menu options" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,458, issued on April 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Access management and control of a display unit menu options" was invented by Nobuyuki Tsukada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a lock control unit configured to set a menu screen corresponding to at least one tab among a plurality of menu screens respectively corresponding to a plurality of tabs to a locked state in which the menu screen is not displayed, and a setting unit configured to set information for releasing the locked state for each of the menu screens respectively corresponding to the plurality of tabs, wherein the lo...