US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on July 22 for "Vision-based self-checkout system and method for the visually impaired" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,744, issued on July 22, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Vision-based self-checkout system and method for the visually impaired" was invented by Kip Oliver Morgan (Atlanta), Gina Torcivia Bennett (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Jerry Steven Massey (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and John Kennedy (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-service checkout terminal for vision-based checkout includes a computing device having a processor and a memory. A camera coupled to the computing device has a predefined field of view focused on a scan zone and provides a video output signal of the scan zone to the computing device. A checkout ...