ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,956, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Trinity LLC (Metuchen, N.J.).

"Pass-through loss prevention system" was invented by Eric Henry (Bound Brook, N.J.) and John Farinola (Monroe Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storefront shelf can have a shelf front, a shelf top, a shelf bottom, a right sidewall, and a left sidewall. The shelf front includes a transparent barrier, one or more product exit apertures, one or more product movement apertures, and a set of restocking components. The transparent barrier permits shoppers to view shelf contained products and, when closed, inhibits extraction of any of a set of shelf contai...