ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,206, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Wireless tag reading system, management device, and method" was invented by Nobuo Murofushi (Susono Shizuoka, Japan), Shigeaki Suzuki (Gotemba Shizuoka, Japan), Wataru Sakurai (Izu Shizuoka, Japan) and Masaki Kimura (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless tag reading system includes wireless tag reading devices each configured to, when communicating with a wireless tag, instruct the wireless tag to transmit a response wave in a certain response format, and a management device including: a network interface configured to communicate with the ...