ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,518, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Mobile device, network system, and control method for the same" was invented by Takahiro Imamichi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaaki Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmit...