ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,163, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Masaki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes a battery, a receiving unit configured to receive power from a power supply apparatus connected to the processing apparatus, a processing unit configured to execute predetermined processing by the power of the power supply apparatus or the power of the battery, and a control unit configured to switch the power to be supplied to the processing unit to the power supplied from the power supply apparatus or the power ...