US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 15 for "Tracking system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,135, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tracking system" was invented by Junpei Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiharu Takahashi (Tokyo) and Ryoh Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking system includes a gate including an information reader and gate circuitry. The gate is at least two gates including one gate placed at an entrance of a management area and the other gate placed at an entrance of an area. The management area is a place to keep an item to be lent. The area is included in another place to which the item is taken after being lent. The tracking system includes a server...