ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,373, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Saronikos Trading and Services, Unipessoal LDA (Madeira, Portugal).

"Method, medium, and system for comparing product offers" was invented by Robert James (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for comparing product offers, wherein the apparatus includes acquisition components able to receive product identification information collected from or transmitted by a product and/or a product tag positioned on or close to the product, and control and/or processing components configured for receiving, through the acquisition components, the product identificatio...