US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 19 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,682, issued on May 19, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Tomohito Takakura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Takada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichiro Shimano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment terminal is provided, which is a composite terminal capable of selecting a plurality of payment methods. The payment terminal includes a touch panel that electrically detects a contact or a proximity of an object as an input detection function, and an antenna for non-contact communication with a commu...