ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,104, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to VusionGroup SA (Nanterre, France).

"Method for controlling an electronic shelf label" was invented by Tarik Filali Ansary (Nanterre, France), Andreas Rossl (Nanterre, France) and Steven Thomas (Nanterre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an electronic shelf label that is attached to a shelf rail at a position along the shelf rail and controlled by a local rail controller at the shelf rail, wherein the rail controller stores a list of display data, wherein an element of the list of display data is intended to be submitted to an electronic shelf label and represents th...