ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,801, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Saki Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Kazushige Ohnishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Hitosugi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to acquire color information indicating a surface color of an image forming medium, set, based on the acquired color information, an image forming color for applying gloss to the image forming medium, and output an instruction to form an image on the...