ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,457, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).
"Scan avoidance prevention system" was invented by Gopi Subramanian (Delray Beach, Fla.), Joseph Celi (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Milton R. Navarro (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of determining losses at a point of sale (POS) device, comprising receiving, by a processor from an imaging device, a video feed of a scanning area. The aspects further include detecting, by the processor, an entry of an item into the scanning area. Additionally, the aspects further inc...