US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec, ENAX on May 5 for "Shopping cart" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,445, issued on May 5, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo) and ENAX Inc. (Tokyo).

"Shopping cart" was invented by Katsuaki Sakurada (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Yasuno (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuya Takeda (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Hachirou Sawada (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Reiji Sugikami (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Tomonori Sugiyama (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Takeda (Saitama Saitama, Japan), Takahiro Okazaki (Bunkyo Tokyo, Japan), Ryoichi Yamamoto (Bunkyo Tokyo, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kitada (Bunkyo Tokyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a shopping cart capable of simplifying equipment of a st...