ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,906, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-Pref., Japan).

"Baggage search method and a baggage information management system" was invented by Atsushi Watanabe (Chita-gun, Japan) and Takayoshi Kamiya (Chita-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baggage search method including following processes: an information acquisition process for acquiring a search target information including a search target image of a search target baggage and a target ID stored in a radio tag attached to the search target baggage, an image collation process for collating a pictured area that contains at least a part of a baggage group...