US Patent Issued to SATO on Feb. 17 for "Item management system, item management method, item detection instrument, and item detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,451, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Item management system, item management method, item detection instrument, and item detection device" was invented by Yoshiyuki Ueda (Tokyo) and Mitsutoshi Sakagami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item management system includes: a placement member for placing an item, the placement member being at a first position when no item is placed on the placement member, the placement member moving from the first position to a second position when an item is placed on the placement member; a communication device attached to the placement member; a radio wave shield member c...