ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,602, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Device management system, information processing method, information processing server, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Yoshihiko Shimohira (Kanagawa, Japan) and Susumu Fujioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device management system includes an image-capturing device, an operation detector, circuitry, and a display. The image-capturing device captures a surrounding image of a surrounding area. The operation detector detects an operation by a user. The circuitry is configured to, in response to the operation by the user, clip a par...