ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,355, issued on March 24, was assigned to BUGALI (Paris).

"Device for receiving and identifying a book and its pages" was invented by Francois Hisquin (Le Vesinet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is proposed a device (1) configured for receiving a book (2), said book comprising a book-identifier and a page; wherein said device comprises: a user input detection device; a book-identifier detection device configured to detect the book-identifier of the book; an output device; a controller connected to the user input detection device, the book-identifier detection device and the output device; and a first fastening means to remo...