ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,049, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Kazuhiko Kogami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes circuitry that acquires audio of a participant and other participants in communication with each other. The circuitry also receives a predetermined operation by the participant during the communication, records time information indicating the time when the predetermined operation is received, and provides a display screen to display an index indica...