ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,621, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and control method thereof" was invented by Masaki Fujioka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device that communicates with an external device using a first connection method and a second connection method is disclosed. The communication device, when a connection is established with an external device, determines whether to automatically display a screen for using the external device from the communication device on a display device, based on (i) a connection method used to connect to the external device and/or (ii) whether the e...