ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,657, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Display apparatus, display method, and recording medium with display program recorded thereon for user recognition of a connected peripheral device" was invented by Kousuke Sugiura (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: an acquisition processing unit that acquires identification information of a peripheral device connected to the display apparatus; a search processing unit that searches for an image corresponding to the peripheral device via a network, based on the identification information acquired by the acquisition processing ...