ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,858, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and recording medium" was invented by Kohji Yoshimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: circuitry that measures at least one of first communication speeds of a plurality of servers that store identical data or one or more second communication speeds of one or more information terminals that access the identical data in at least one of the plurality of servers, each of the first communication speeds corresponding to a respective one of the pl...