ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,394, issued on May 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus with printing and scanning security, and control method for controlling an image processing apparatus" was invented by Keishi Araki (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors and the one or more memories are configured to register a plurality of character string lists, select a character string list from the plurality of character string lists based on an attribute of a job, perform a comparison process for comparing text information ...