ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,382, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, method for processing information, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Kazuki Ishikura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadaaki Oyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayumu Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuuki Nakada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry transmits document data in response to a request signal transmitted from an information processing terminal and requesting output of the document data. Based on an information signal...