ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,721, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VusionGroup GmbH (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria).

"Device for aiding visually impaired or blind persons while shopping" was invented by Nikola Gmajnic (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria) and Philipp Jauck (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic price and/or product-information display device, display device for short, which is designed to visually reproduce price and/or product information of a product and which is designed to store reproduction data, said reproduction data representing the price and/or product information, wherein the display device comprises a first short-rang...