US Patent Issued to RICOH on Jan. 13 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory recording medium for managing license information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,378, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory recording medium for managing license information" was invented by Tatsuya Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshio Konno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsutaka Nakata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to acquire license information indicating a license of a predetermined function, and execute a process related to the predetermined function permitted by the license. In a case where a state of the license information being acquired...