ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,593, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus capable of BLE communication, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" was invented by Mizuki Wakabayashi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus that prevents one mobile terminal from occupying BLE communication until completing error handling. The information processing apparatus executes a predetermined process based on data received from a mobile terminal and includes a function to obtain information from the mobile terminal by first wireless communication afte...