ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,075, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and control method" was invented by Kenta Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus connects to an external apparatus and generates operation information for operating the external apparatus on a basis of predetermined information. The predetermined information is stored and operation information is generated or the operation information is generated without storing the predetermined information. The predetermined information includes identification information of the external apparatus, and in a case where th...