ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,427, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SteeRetail Co. Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Product recognition apparatus, product recognition system, product recognition method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" was invented by Tomoya Nakagawasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouji Yagiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Terukazu Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuki Fujisaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroyasu Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product recognition apparatus includes: a storage unit storing in advance, an image database in which image information for learning of a plurality of products and product names are asso...