ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,695, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Eri Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Kaibara (Kanagawa, Japan), Aya Kuwano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsuru Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured in which an area to be processed in a document is specified using a position of a marker placed on a surface of the document. When the marker is placed, the processor uses a placement position of the marker ...