ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,283, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Wireless tag communication device" was invented by Jun Yaginuma (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan) and Sadatoshi Oishi (Fuji Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless tag communication device includes an antenna, a communication control circuit, a camera, a sensor, and a processor. The antenna has directivity. The communication control circuit communicates with a wireless tag via the antenna. The camera captures an image in which a direction in which the directivity of the antenna is maximized coincides with a capturing direction. The sensor detects brightn...