US Patent Issued to SATO on Feb. 24 for "Item managing apparatus, item managing system, and item managing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,371, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Item managing apparatus, item managing system, and item managing method" was invented by Yoshiyuki Ueda (Tokyo) and Mitsutoshi Sakagami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item managing apparatus includes: an item attachment device including a linear member and a biasing member, the linear member including one end that is attached to an item, the biasing member biasing the linear member from the one end in a first direction; a communication device attached to the linear member; and a device accommodation part that can accommodate the communication device, the device ac...