US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Feb. 17 for "Cost calculation and payment device, cost calculation and payment system, and cost calculation and payment method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,146, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cost calculation and payment device, cost calculation and payment system, and cost calculation and payment method" was invented by Kouhei Nishino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual merchandise sales area controller controls MR glasses worn by a user to display virtual merchandise items as virtual objects in a superimposed manner in a store as a real space and detects the user's operation of selecting a virtual merchandise item. Then, in response to the user's operation of selecting the virtual merchandise item, a ...