US Patent Issued to RICOH on May 19 for "Information processing apparatus method for responding to user inquiry via information source or operator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,500, issued on May 19, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus method for responding to user inquiry via information source or operator" was invented by Takanori Mohri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus outputs answer information corresponding to inquiry information that is input. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of databases each having at least a first field and a second field. The circuitry is configured to: perform morphological analysis on the inquiry information...