ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,267, issued on June 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program that acquires non-randomized identification information from a communication apparatus when a randomizing function is enabled" was invented by Shunsuke Maki (Tokyo) and Shodai Yano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus acquires predetermined information from a communication apparatus and determines whether the acquired predetermined information is information corresponding to enabling of a predetermined function of randomizing ident...