ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,621, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).
"Packaging box body, information processing apparatus, and program" was invented by Takashi Tomooka (Tokyo) and Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a packaging box body for packing an article. In the packaging box body, an upper surface and at least two lateral surfaces that are adjacent to each other are defined as target surfaces, and a code image is formed on each of the target surfaces."
The patent was filed on March 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/188,829.
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