US Patent Issued to SATO on July 21 for "Communication control method for communication device, item management equipment, and item management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,391, issued on July 21, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication control method for communication device, item management equipment, and item management system" was invented by Yoshiyuki Ueda (Tokyo), Kazuya Hirata (Tokyo) and Mitsutoshi Sakagami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control method for a communication device includes (i) blocking communication of the communication device with a wireless device by causing a metal-containing member to be close to the communication antenna among a plurality of antennas, or by covering at least a part of the communication antenna with the metal-containing member...