ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,725, issued on Sept. 30, 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 a shelf tag holding portion (103) for holding an electronic shelf tag (101), and a support member (102) that supports the shelf tag holding portion rotatably about a rotation axis P extending in a left-right direction of the electronic shelf tag (101). The shelf tag h...