ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,857, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, storage medium, and information processing system" was invented by Teruaki Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus connectable to one or more devices via a network. The apparatus includes a measuring unit measuring an inclination of the apparatus; a determining unit determining whether the inclination of the apparatus relative to a given surface of one of the one or more devices is within a predetermined inclination range; a receiving unit that receives radio waves; an obtaining un...