ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,360, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Takehiro Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to acquire, from a first data group, a second data group related to a person. The first data group includes a plurality of types of data. The circuitry extracts a character string indicating knowledge related to the person from the second data group and determines whether a sharing status of the knowledge i...