ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,843, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Shelf tag attachment apparatus" was invented by Kunihiro Akaba (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromitsu Nakano (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Onita (Tokyo), Shunsuke Tsuda (Tokyo) and Hiroki Sugegaya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf tag attachment apparatus (100) includes an electronic shelf tag (101), and a shelf tag holding portion (103) for holding the electronic shelf tag (101). The electronic shelf tag (101) includes, on each of an upper end and a lower end, a groove portion (105) extending in a left-right direction, and the shelf t...