ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,957, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Product registration apparatus, product registration method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Jun Uchimura (Tokyo), Hiroshi Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masato Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided a product registration apparatus including an information acquisition unit that determines a placement position of a product having a placing table surface side to which product information is attached and acquires the product information attached to the product, and an output unit that outputs inf...