ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,323, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, terminal apparatus, and information processing system" was invented by Eri Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuki Hori (Aichi, Japan), Yuuki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Tokyo), Terunori Koyama (Tokyo) and Takuroh Naitoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method each: displays, to a first user belonging to a particular group of a plurality of groups, an information display screen for the particular group, the information display screen including a first area and a second area, the first area including a plurality ...