ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,999, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"PTP management system" was invented by Rui Ishiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PTP management system includes an acquisition unit that captures an image of a PTP sheet with a camera from an opening side or a protruding side of pockets having a printed portion, to thereby acquire the image including the printed portion and a lattice pattern image formed on a cover film, and a generation unit that generates, from the acquired image, an image for individual identification to be used for identifying the PTP sheet."
The patent was filed on July 1, 2021, under Applic...