US Patent Issued to Canon on March 3 for "Information processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,117, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Tomohiro Kimura (Chiba, Japan) and Minoru Fujisawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MFP as an information processing apparatus stores a setting data group as a combination of at least one setting item and a setting value corresponding to the at least one setting item for each of a plurality of division categories. The MFP acquires a plurality of network settings acquired from outside and/or set in the MFP. The MFP estimates the category corresponding to the ...