US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and method for information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,680, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and method for information processing apparatus" was invented by Satoki Watariuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration is provided in which in a case where a user operation is performed on an image forming apparatus or a data processing apparatus while the image forming apparatus and the data processing apparatus are operating in cooperation with each other, the automatic clearing timers of both the apparatuses are reset."

The patent was filed on Nov. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/507,...