ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,964, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method for managing maintenance operation permission" was invented by Hirochika Shionoiri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to assign a maintenance worker operation permission of a maintenance work applied for in advance for the information processing apparatus in accordance with an input received from a manager user, and after a return from a restart,...