ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,162, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Communication system" was invented by Tohru Kobayashi (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system for unmanned stores includes a management server and an access point connected to a communication network. In-store devices are configured to provide information to a system processing device by wireless communication via the access point and each include a first wireless controller for communicating with the access point according to certain parameters and a second wireless controller for directly communicating with the other in-store de...