ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,473, issued on April 15, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Wireless tag reading apparatus" was invented by Wataru Sakurai (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuichiro Kawabe (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless tag reading apparatus according to an embodiment includes an accommodation part formed by a bottom surface part and a peripheral surface part vertically provided upward from the bottom surface part, a peripheral surface opening part that is formed in the peripheral surface part, and enables goods to be taken into and out of the accommodation part, a cover part covering a part of an upside of the accommodation p...