ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,957, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Document editing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and document editing method" was invented by Yohei Uchiumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Bito (Kanagawa, Japan), Takenori Matsuo (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihito Suezawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Kikushima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kosuke Ichikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document editing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: in a case where a second user performs an operation of dividing an original document in...