US Patent Issued to FAST RETAILING on April 14 for "Gate apparatus, control method for gate apparatus, program, and gate system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,975, issued on April 14, was assigned to FAST RETAILING Co. LTD. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Gate apparatus, control method for gate apparatus, program, and gate system" was invented by Muneharu Yajima (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a technique capable of efficiently checking whether payment has been correctly performed for a held product in a payment system.A gate apparatus is communicatively connected to an information processing apparatus including first acquisition means for reading a store leaving code to acquire first identification information for individually identifying a product for which a payment pr...