US Patent Issued to NEC Platforms on July 14 for "Information processing apparatus and method for determining a product to be purchased" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,387, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and method for determining a product to be purchased" was invented by Hideki Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a gate data acquisition unit that acquires product identification information and basket identification information that have been read by a gate sensor; a storage control unit that controls the basket identification information and the product identification information that have been read together by the gate sensor to be stored in a storage dev...