ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,746, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, document management device, and recording medium" was invented by Takehiro Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed information processing system includes a first terminal device used by a reporting user to post a reporting document; a second terminal device used by a user to transmit remuneration to the reporting user; and a document management device to manage the reporting document, wherein the first terminal device transmits the posting of the reporting document to the document management device, the secon...