ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,880, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Incremental training of a machine-learning model (MLM) for multiview item recognition" was invented by Christian Lee McDaniel (Atlanta), Stefan Bjelcevic (Roswell, Ga.), Justin Paul (Atlanta), Georgiy Pyantkovs'ky (Atlanta) and Brent Vance Zucker (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple images of multiple items are captured of a transaction area during a checkout. The Red-Green-Blue (RGB) data associated with each item image patch is collected across the images and provided as input by a Machine-Learning Model (MLM), which returns an item code for the it...