US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Aug. 25 for "Log-in control apparatus, control method of log- in control apparatus, and information terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,219, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Log-in control apparatus, control method of log- in control apparatus, and information terminal" was invented by Yuta Sasaki (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a log-in control apparatus has a processor which controls an operation for log-in to an information terminal moving along with a carrier for carrying a commodity to be purchased. The processor detects a state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, in cooperation with a sensor attached to the carrier. The processor detects the operation for log-in to the inform...