US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 22 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,534, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to read identification information of an application and a program of the application from a recording medium; generate license information using unique information assigned to the information processing apparatus, the identification information, and the program; and store the generated license information in the recording medium. The license...