ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,279, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GAEASOFT Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for processing payments for products in unmanned store" was invented by Young Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned store product checkout device according to one embodiment may include a conveying unit that conveys products, a product recognition unit that recognizes that the products have been placed on the conveying unit, a scanning unit that scans barcodes and images of the products conveyed by the conveying unit, a weight sensor that measures weights of the scanned products, a processor that iden...