ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,267, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Conference support system, conference support method, and recording medium" was invented by Tomohiro Shima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference support system is for supporting a conference. The conference support system includes one or more information processing apparatuses for implementing various functions of the conference support system. The conference support system includes an inputter configured to input a statement content that is a content of a statement stated by a participant of the conference; a determiner configured to determine a st...