ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,401, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Kenichi Shiraishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus, which transmits a message to an information-sharing service managing messages on a thread format including a plurality of messages, obtains, in a case where a reply mode is set on the information processing apparatus by a user before a first message is transmitted to the information-sharing service with a scanned document, information on a plurality...