ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,475, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Individual item price management system and method of managing individual item price management system" was invented by Yasuhiko Mochida (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, an individual item management system includes an information terminal and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus changes the price included in the product information in accordance with a predetermined rule according to a lapse of time from the reference date and time. The information processing apparatus acquir...