ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,772, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Everseen Ltd. (Blackpool, Ireland).

"Self-checkout device that detects motion in video frames to register products present in the video" was invented by Ovidiu Parvu (Timis, Romania), Razvan-Dorel Cioarga (Oradea, Romania) and Raymond Hegarty (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-checkout device and a method implemented by the self-checkout device is provided. The self-checkout device includes a detection plate to allow placement of product(s) thereon, and one or more cameras positioned to have a Field-of-View encompassing the detection plate to provide a video footage. A motion detection...