US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 17 for "Text data transmission-reception system, shared terminal, and method of processing information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,973, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Text data transmission-reception system, shared terminal, and method of processing information" was invented by Ryo Iwasaki (Tokyo), Takuya Imai (Tokyo), Takuro Mano (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaaki Kagawa (Tokyo), Hiromasa Koike (Tokyo) and Seiya Koura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text data transmission-reception system includes a plurality of user terminals; a shared terminal; and an information processing apparatus connectable to each of the plurality of user terminals and the shared terminal via a network. The information processing apparatus includ...