ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,090, issued on July 7, was assigned to VusionGroup GmbH (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria).
"Electronic shelf label and shelf illumination devices" was invented by Jan Oosthoek (Voitsberg, Austria) and Philipp Jauck (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic shelf label, which is arranged to be attached to a shelf, preferred to a shelf rail located at the front edge of a shelf floor, more preferred to form the shelf rail by itself and to be directly attached to the shelf floor, the electronic shelf label comprises: a display screen arranged on or as the front wall of the electronic shelf label to display content in...