ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,372, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power supply device and display apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Yaoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device includes circuitry to supply power to an information processing apparatus, acquire a detection result of a person by a sensor disposed at the information processing apparatus, output a first determination result indicating whether a first condition is satisfied, and output a second determination result indicating whether a second condition is satisfied. When the detection result indicates that a person is detected in a state where the i...