ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,466, issued on July 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, system, and method of monitoring, and recording medium" was invented by Satoru Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method of remotely monitoring receives, from an operation terminal, identification information and location information of a location of one or more lamps, stores, in a memory, the received identification information and the received location information in association with each other for the one or more lamps, updates log information regarding a log of a lighting condition of the one or more lamps, ...