ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,948, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that performs handover, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Naoki Morita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present image forming apparatus selects an appropriate connection method in accordance with circumstances from a plurality of connection methods when communication with an information processing apparatus is established by short-range wireless communication, and notifies information necessary for performing communication by the selected connection method to the information processing apparatus via ...