ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,136, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Tsuyoshi Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a minimum size of output that the image processing apparatus can output and circuitry. The circuitry is to determine a size of a document, output an image of the document in a case that the size of the document is determined to be smaller than the minimum size of the output, and output a notification prompting for confirmation in a case that the size of the document is...