ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,166, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Mobile sales system and server device" was invented by Kento Kawata (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan), Morito Natsume (Tokyo), Mikio Ito (Tokyo), Taro Ando (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan), Takahide Matsumoto (Tokyo), Ai Hirai (Tokyo), Kizuku Inoue (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Tsuyoshi Nakai (Nara Nara, Japan), Yumiko Okuma (Tokyo) and Mayuko Tsunoda (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a mobile sales system includes a terminal device and a mobile sales device on which items to be sold can be mounted. The terminal device is used to...