ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,183, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System and method for supporting management of products after shipping" was invented by Makiko Naemura (Tokyo), Tomohisa Kohiyama (Tokyo), Akira Iyozumi (Tokyo) and Yuusuke Nakagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a first position data set indicating a first positioning position of a shipped product with first frequency and receives a second position data set indicating a second positioning position of the product with second frequency. The system displays, on a map, at least one of n first position display objects ...