ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,052, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Synchronous communication apparatus, control method of the same and storage medium" was invented by Mitsumasa Abe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a current time for synchronizing with another communication apparatus, a generation unit configured to generate a synchronous pulse at a predetermined frequency, and a change unit configured to, if a set time that is set as a time at which the generation unit starts generation of the synchronous pulse is not a time later than the cur...