ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,237, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Video management system, video management method, reading apparatus, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Tomoya Uehara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a video management system for managing a video of a real space captured by a capturing apparatus, including: a first reading unit configured to emit an electromagnetic wave to a tag reading range and read information that is sent back from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag utilizing energy of the electromagnetic wave; a first RFID tag that stores first tag identifi...