US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 17 for "Article management system, article management method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,951, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Article management system, article management method, and storage medium" was invented by Kunihiro Iwamoto (Toyota, Japan), Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an article management system using a computer that associates and stores identification information for identifying an article to be delivered to a user and one or more pieces of usage information regarding use of the article attached by a sender of the article, and that reads the identification information attached to the article, extrac...