US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 4 for "Data processing apparatus, data processing system, and data processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,540, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Data processing apparatus, data processing system, and data processing method" was invented by Shinichi Adachi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Kawashima (Tokyo) and Taku Nagumo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires data. The circuitry identifies a type of the data based on text information of the data, the text information being one of text information included in the data and text information converted from the data. The circuitry executes one or more processes on the data according to the identifi...