US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 10 for "Terminal device having a shielding portion that shields a line of sight of an input device from a person other than the user" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,415, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device having a shielding portion that shields a line of sight of an input device from a person other than the user" was invented by Takashi Shimizu (Tokyo), Hiroshi Morimitsu (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ambe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus (10) is used when at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a housing (110), a first input device (172), and a shielding portion (300). The first input device (172) is provided on an upper surface of the housing (110), and receives an input of at least...