US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Dec. 2 for "System and method for managing a fitting room" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,628, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"System and method for managing a fitting room" was invented by Yoshiyuki Matsui (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan) and Yusuke Sato (Shizuoka Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first reading unit reads member identification information for uniquely identifying each of customers and a second reading unit reads commodity identification information of a commodity carried into the fitting area by the customer and commodity information of a commodity carried out of the fitting area. A collection and storage unit collects and stores, together with date-and-time informatio...