ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,925, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Chiaki Mikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Ichikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Genki Cho (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus, including an imaging unit configured to capture an image for an examination, and a communication unit configured to communicate with a predetermined system, includes a selection unit configured to select an examination purpose, an acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing control information corresponding to the selected examination purpose from ...