ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,158, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus for outputting information for a passenger of a walk-through gate" was invented by Kazuki Miura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (100) includes: a reading result acquisition unit (102) that acquires a reading result from a gate including a reading unit which reads a wireless communication tag provided to a product; a detection result acquisition unit (104) that acquires a detection result from a detection unit which detects a person who passes through the gate; and an output processing unit (106) that causes an ou...