US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 15 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,934, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Yasuhito Nakatani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes an image sensor and circuitry. The image sensor captures an image of an automatic document feeder of an image reading apparatus with a document set on the automatic document feeder. The circuitry acquires information related to the automatic document feeder from an information medium placed on the image reading app...