US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 10 for "Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,675, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program" was invented by Atsushi Sakagami (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Sakurai (Saitama, Japan), Koji Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Daiya Miyasaka (Chiba, Japan), Tomoko Nishizawa (Tokyo), Yasuhiko Tsugawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Ono (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image ...