ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,036, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Article reading system, article reading device, and article reading method" was invented by Ryo Iwasaki (Tokyo) and Takuo Daikaku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article reading system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions: and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: identify a reading position from an image including a gate and a customer; and execute reading of article information from a wireless tag appended to an article, using an article reader provided to the ga...