ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,423, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Lock management system and reading and writing apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Fujii (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuki Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuhide Murofushi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuhiro Tomioka (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomoya Uehara (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenichi Nakao (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock management system includes: a switching apparatus capable of switching a state of a lock target between a locked state and an unlocked state; a writing apparatus configured to write authentication information in a first storage area of a first RFID tag based o...