US Patent Issued to NEC Platforms on March 18 for "Electronic receipt system, electronic receipt management method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,450, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Electronic receipt system, electronic receipt management method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Norihiko Shimazu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic receipt system according to example embodiments includes: a code issuance server configured to issue a code in response to a request from a mobile terminal and to transmit the code to the mobile terminal; a POS terminal configured to read the code displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal, to transmit the code to the code issuance server for inquiry,...