US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Asset management system and asset management method" (Japanese, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,946, issued on Feb. 17.

"Asset management system and asset management method" was invented by Takashi Nakayama (San Jose, Calif.), Gennadii Berkovich (Calgary, Canada), Shinji Higuma (Tokyo) and Yusuke Ariake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset management system that manages an asset employing a terminal unit including a tag communication unit that communicates with the tag and a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information. The position information acquisition unit starts to acquire the position information when a first condition is satisfied, such that the first condition is at least one of a ...