US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on July 8 for "Data processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,074, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Data processing apparatus" was invented by Xin Liu (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan), Shigeki Nimiya (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuharu Tozawa (Tagata Shizuoka, Japan), Hajime Takei (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Sakamoto (Soka Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A POS system for managing information from POS terminals, includes a first terminal in a first store and generating first information in a first format including data fields each storing data related to an item purchased in a transaction, a second terminal in a second store and generating second information in a s...