ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,447, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Wireless tag communication apparatus, wireless tag communication system, and communication method for a wireless tag communication apparatus" was invented by Sunao Tsuchida (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a wireless tag communication apparatus causes a reading command specifying a first state as a flag state to be sent, to thereby acquire identification information of a wireless tag in the first state. In a case where the wireless tag communication apparatus determines the wireless tag that is a detection targe...