ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,202, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information collection system and information processing apparatus" was invented by Tsuyoshi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information collection system includes a collection apparatus, and one or more proxy apparatuses, in which the collection apparatus collects information from a terminal by communication using a first communication method, in a case where the information is not collected from the terminal in the communication, transmits an information collection request for the terminal to the one or more proxy appara...