ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,453, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing system for merchandise registration" was invented by Osamu Tsuchiya (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for a retail merchandise registration system includes a communication interface configured to connect to product scanners and processing requests and image data from the scanners. The processor compares a present device load value to a threshold and sends a positive response when the present device load is less than the threshold and a negative response when...