ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,901, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and service providing system" was invented by Hirochika Shionoiri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire specified information that specifies a rule of first authentication information for each user used for authentication of the user, from a remote apparatus connected by a communication line via a firewall; and synchronize the first authentication information and second authentication information stored in the remote apparatus b...