ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,327, issued on May 26, was assigned to Teraoka Seiko Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Weighing sales system and weighing device" was invented by Syuusaku Yokono (Tokyo) and Tsutomu Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighing sales system includes: a plurality of weighing devices that weigh articles; and an information terminal. Each of the weighing devices includes: a weighing device processor that: detects a weight of the articles, and transmits the detected weight and identification information of each of the weighing devices, and the information terminal includes: a terminal processor that: receives the detected weight and the identi...