US Patent Issued to BIZERBA on March 18 for "Self-checkout store" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,455, issued on March 18, 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; reading out a customer identification number of a customer in a vicinity of the shelf from which the removed item has been removed; receiving, by a controller, the item data of the removed item and the customer identification n...