US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Connection setting method that improves convenience of connection to network, information processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,177, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Connection setting method that improves convenience of connection to network, information processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yuhei Yoshimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection setting method that improves the convenience of connection to a network. A method of controlling a terminal apparatus having a predetermined program includes determining, by the predetermined program which is operating as a background process, whether or not the terminal apparatus is in a predetermined state in which the terminal apparatus can access a predetermi...