ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,681, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Order management device and order management method" was invented by Daisuke Ueta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An order management device is provided with: an input circuit that acquires information about a plurality of articles including an order candidate article and to be subjected to image recognition after the order candidate article is ordered; a determination circuit that determines, with respect to two or more different articles included in the plurality of articles, an index indicating a possibili...