ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,985, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method for optimizing resource allocation and data consistency" was invented by Hiroshige Nonaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masato Sugii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: as a first job, perform connection to an external server that is enable to be connected from the information processing apparatus, instruct the exte...