US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 3 for "Storage device including update restriction area, replaceable unit including storage device, and processing apparatus for updating data stored in storage device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,672, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Storage device including update restriction area, replaceable unit including storage device, and processing apparatus for updating data stored in storage device" was invented by Naoki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes: a control unit configured to determine, when a first command to update first data stored at a first address in a first area of a storage unit to second data is received from an external apparatus, whether or not an update from the first data to the second data is within an update restricted range. In a case where th...