US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 14 for "Information processing apparatus, service providing system, and method to modify a license based on usage" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,099, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, service providing system, and method to modify a license based on usage" was invented by Yohta Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus, a service providing system, and a method. The information processing apparatus stores in one or more memories, information on execution of each of a plurality of applications, which are available for use under a license contract and outputs suggestion to change the license contract according to a usage count of each application obtained from the information o...