US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 16 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium for controlling job execution based on availability of a placement area" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,537, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium for controlling job execution based on availability of a placement area" was invented by Ayano Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that: acquires a job to be executed by a job processing apparatus; determines whether or not there is a free space in a placement area, the placement area being an area where work products obtained by the job processing apparatus executing the job are to be plac...