ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,617, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Communication apparatus and method" was invented by Koki Nakamura (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan), Takashi Tomiyama (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ishikawa (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes an antenna, a driving unit, a reading control unit, an acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The driving unit is configured to move a relative position of the antenna relative to one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit is configured to control measurement of tag data of the one or more wireless tags based on rec...