ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,606, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masakazu Tsuchihashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device publishes an application programming interface (API) for a setting related to CORS in which a setting that is related to enabling or disabling of cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is included, and in a case where a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request for the API is received from another device, executes the setting related to CORS based on the request."

The patent was filed on Jan. 6, 2023, under Applicatio...