ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,018, issued on May 26, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"System including operation device and information storing apparatus, method performed by the system, and the information storing apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiro Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an operation device and an information storing apparatus, which are connected via a network. The operation device determines, based on information input from the outside of the operation device in response to an operation performed on the operation device, an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the s...