US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 22 for "Information processing apparatus that resricts update of predetermined firmware before completing setup for activating a subscription service, image forming apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and software update method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,264, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus that resricts update of predetermined firmware before completing setup for activating a subscription service, image forming apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and software update method" was invented by Daiki Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus including: one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors capable of executing the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to: restrict a process related to updating predetermined...