US Patent Issued to RICOH on May 6 for "Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,680, issued on May 6, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Akira Yokoyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a scanner to read a document, a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner, and circuitry to identify a user, send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition, determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document, search a number of times the confidential document has bee...