ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,284, issued on Nov. 4.
"Terminal and user interface methods for facilitating transactions" was invented by Michel Coutu (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive terminal, comprising: a camera; a document capture system; an input-output interface; a display; a loudspeaker; a network interface; and a processing entity. The processing entity is configured for: transmitting a document captured by the document capture system to a remote server via the network interface; guiding a user through a transaction sequence that includes steps during which the user provides requested input via the input-output interface and steps dur...