US Patent Issued to Ricoh on May 13 for "Information processing apparatus, abnormality detection method, storage medium, and information processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,770, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, abnormality detection method, storage medium, and information processing system" was invented by Hideyuki Kihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Taneda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Nagata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry detects an abnormality in an image reading apparatus from a first spectral reflectance and a second spectral reflectance, the first spectral reflectance being generated based on data read from a reference white plate instal...