ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,704, issued on March 18, was assigned to Realize Co. Inc. (Tokyo).
"Shredder system" was invented by Yosuke Imafuku (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A read unit of a scanner device reads the information fixed to a medium by printing. A transmission control unit executes the control of transmitting, to a server, the information of the medium acquired in the form of digital image data. An information acquisition unit acquires the information transmitted from a shredder. An information management unit stores the information acquired by the information acquisition unit in an acquired information database in such a way as to be iden...