US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Jan. 27 for "Vision-based frictionless self-checkouts for small baskets" (Georgia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,976, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Vision-based frictionless self-checkouts for small baskets" was invented by Qian Yang (Smyrna, Ga.), Frank Douglas Hinek (Decatur, Ga.), Dharamendra Kumar (Atlanta), Matias Gabriel Szylkowski Resnikow (New York) and Brent Vance Zucker (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision-based self-checkout terminal is provided. Purchased items are placed on a base and multiple cameras take multiple images of each item placed on the base. A location for each item placed on the base is determined along with a depth and the dimensions of each item at its given location...