US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Sept. 23 for "Office device, office device system, control method using office device, and wireless device tracking method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,484, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Office device, office device system, control method using office device, and wireless device tracking method" was invented by Shinji Koizumi (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an office device includes a communication unit to wirelessly communicate with a wireless device using a short-range wireless communication standard. A processor of the office device is configured to periodically search for wireless devices within a communication range of the communication unit, acquire identification information from each wirele...