ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,971, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Monitoring apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Migaku Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus obtains a device list from a device management server, determines a monitoring method for monitoring a device included in the device list, and executes first registration processing in order to register a first device that is monitored using a first monitoring method, to an authorization server, and executes second registration processing different from the first registration processing in order to register, to the authoriza...