US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 14 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,131, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method" was invented by Hidetoshi Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that invokes and causes a proxy avatar to participate in a virtual space. The proxy avatar represents a first user, and is proxy for a user avatar that participates in the virtual space. In response to receipt from a second user of a request to the proxy avatar, the circuitry executes a process based on the request based on information of a proces...