ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,235, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, information processing system, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsushi Moriwaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus performs color matching of gradation values of the same target color acquired in each of two different states. The image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires, in a first state, first color values of patches respectively corresponding to first gradation values and second color values of patches respectively corresponding ...