ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,426, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Genki Watanabe (Tokyo) and Keisuke Iwasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus receives an information type of a collection target and a character string related to the collection target, compares first information obtained by analyzing the cha...