US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on April 21 for "Wireless tag reading apparatus, storage medium, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,733, issued on April 21, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Wireless tag reading apparatus, storage medium, and method" was invented by Wataru Sakurai (Izu Shizuoka, Japan), Nobuo Murofushi (Susono Shizuoka, Japan), Shigeaki Suzuki (Gotemba Shizuoka, Japan), Yuki Suzuki (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan), Masaki Kimura (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichiro Kawabe (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan) and Haruka Otake (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reading apparatus includes a mechanism to move an antenna between first and second positions, and a controller configured to: (a) control the antenna to transmit radio wave...