ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,513, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Storage box state determination system" was invented by Akira Imai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage box state determination system according to the present invention has: a storage unit that stores an identification information management table in which tag IDs of multiple wireless tags are associated with a storage box ID of a storage box, and a state management table in which an empty state and a storing state are associated with the number of tag IDs; an information acquisition unit that acquires the tag IDs using an antenna that receives ...