ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,710, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Hirooki Oka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain, during an online meeting, when a participant has left halfway through the online meeting, an absent period of the participant and a remaining time of the online meeting, the absent period being a period of time for which the participant is absent after the participant has left the online meeting, the remaini...