ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,293, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system and slip creation method" was invented by Hajime Kawasaki (Chiba, Japan), Makoto Aoki (Tokyo), Takeshi Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichi Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed." ...