US Patent Issued to RICOH on May 12 for "Apparatus and method for providing services with a blockchain system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,507, issued on May 12, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for providing services with a blockchain system" was invented by Takuma Kasamatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing services, includes: circuitry that: receive, from a communication terminal of a user, a request for obtaining a particular item of one or more items provided by one or more service providers, information on the one or more items being managed on a blockchain system; transmits, to the blockchain system, a request for changing information on a use right of the particular item to indicate transfer of the u...