US Patent Issued to BIZERBA on Aug. 12 for "Self-checkout store" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,252, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BIZERBA SE & Co. KG (Balingen, Germany).

"Self-checkout store" was invented by Tudor Andronic (Matzingen, Switzerland) and Meik Huber (Muehlheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a sales device for goods. The method includes: detecting, using a shelf with automatic removal monitoring, a removed item and determining item data of the removed item; receiving the item data of the removed item; adding the item data of the removed item to a list of items intended for payment; receiving an item number from a product scanner; adding the item associated with the item number to a ...