ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,356, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Communication control server, communication system, and communication control method" was invented by Yuichi Araumi (Tokyo), Hiroaki Nagatsuka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoyuki Nozawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control server includes circuitry to receive, from a first mobile apparatus, status information indicating a status of the first mobile apparatus currently communicating with a communication terminal as a communication destination of the communication terminal. The first mobile apparatus is movable in a real space and remotely operab...