ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,196, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus, system, and control method" was invented by Hidemitsu Imai (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus that generates connection information for a connection to an access point as a code image that is readable by a terminal device includes a display that displays the generated code image, and one or more controllers that control display of the code image on the display, in which the one or more controllers display, on the display, a first code image including connection information for the terminal de...