ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,075, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Terminal device, purchase management method, and program" was invented by Jun Uchimura (Tokyo), Yasuyo Kazo (Tokyo), Shinji Funai (Tokyo) and Hiroki Sugegaya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a purchase management system using a self-checkout register, pieces of information, which are respectively registered by individual terminal devices, are shared among a plurality of customers. A terminal device capable of acquiring item identification information of each item to be purchased first acquires a cooperation ID. Next, the terminal device shares the information in real t...