US Patent Issued to Canon on June 16 for "Communication apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,158, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and control method" was invented by Nao Asano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus that communicates with an external apparatus, comprises an obtainment unit that obtains, from a first external apparatus, an image file and a supplementary information file related to the image file, a first management unit that stores the image file into a first area of a storage unit, a second management unit that stores the supplementary information file associated with the image file into a second area that is different from the first are...