US Patent Issued to RICOH on April 22 for "Electronic apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,764, issued on April 22, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Ryoh Shimomoto (Tokyo), Tomoki Shibukawa (Tokyo) and Genki Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus for acquiring a program via a network, includes an input unit configured to receive a user operation, and circuitry configured to display, on a display, a list including a plurality of versions of firmware programs installable on the electronic apparatus, download a specific firmware program included in the list or a particular firmware...