ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,030, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and processing method" was invented by Yuto Takahashi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprises a communicator that communicates with an external service and a server that issues an access token to be used in access to the external service; a controller; and a storage that stores an application, wherein the controller obtains information on the server by executing the application, obtains an authorization code from the server identified by the server'...