ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,777, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Shohei Baba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus periodically obtain information from a device, stores a token obtained from an authorization server, periodically transmits the information obtained from the device, to a resource server using the token stored in the storage unit, requests a new token from the authorization server in a case where the token is invalid when the information obtained from the device is transmitted to the resource server, and executes registration processing...