ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,727, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sales management system, sales management method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Neil Primozich (Tokyo), James Camps (Tokyo), Wingin Chau (Tokyo) and KahHui How (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sales management system configured to: acquire: sales data on a target product sold at a shop to be targeted, the sales data indicating a plurality of time-series values relating to sales of the target product; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the shop to be targeted; and output an image includi...