US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 11 for "Information processing apparatus, method, and medium for login with duplicate identifiers" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,210, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and medium for login with duplicate identifiers" was invented by Hiroki Ohzaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry and a memory storing computer-executable instructions. Upon receiving a login request with identification information, the apparatus searches a storage for corresponding user information. When multiple pieces of user information are retrieved, the apparatus selects one piece of user information among multiple pieces retrieved by the search, as the ...