ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,403, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"IC tag attaching apparatus and IC tag attaching method" was invented by Jun Uchimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC tag attaching apparatus (10) includes a detecting unit (110), a writing unit (120), and an attaching unit (130). The detecting unit (110) detects that a parcel is placed in a predetermined area. The writing unit (120) acquires parcel identification information to be provided for the parcel, and causes an IC tag to store the parcel identification information. The attaching unit (130) attaches the IC tag to the parcel. When the IC tag is integrated w...