US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 21 for "Information processing apparatus, article management system, and article management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,562, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, article management system, and article management method" was invented by Jun Uchimura (Tokyo) and Yasuyo Kazo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires recipient identification information that identifies a recipient of an article stored in a warehouse and attribute information indicating an attribute that needs to be satisfied during storage of the article; an association unit that stores, in a storage region, storage space identification information th...