ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,616, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE POKEMON COMPANY (Tokyo).
"Program, method, information processing device, and system for a transparent display medium" was invented by Masao Yoshida (Tokyo), Yasuhiko Teramoto (Tokyo), Akira Kyozuka (Tokyo) and Wakana Kishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customer is provided with a superior shopping experience while realizing hygiene management by using a transparent display medium with a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. Processing circuitry is configured to receive input relating to payment for a product from a first party, and display an image of an effect corresponding to the input r...