ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,023, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display apparatus, input method, and program" was invented by Kiyoshi Kasatani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus 2 for displaying handwritten data that is input with an input unit 2500, wherein in a predetermined case, the display apparatus 2 does not display the handwritten data that is input with the input unit 2500, and receives an input of a character string converted from the handwritten data that is not displayed."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 2021, under Application No. 18/012,246.

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