ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,583, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Point of sale system with remote wake" was invented by Douglas J. Barrett (Eldersburg, Md.), Paul Schleicher (Ellicott City, Md.), Chengge Fan (Singapore) and Ho Meng Hua (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a point of sale system that includes a head unit and an input output (I/O) unit coupled to the head unit and coupled to a network. The I/O unit includes a first controller adapted to, in response to a wake up event received from the network, generating a wake up message and transmitting the wake up message to the h...