ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,292, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).
"System and method for alarms for point-of-sale terminal" was invented by David G. Seal (Ottawa), Daanish Maan (Brampton, Canada) and Michael Joseph DeFazio (Fonthill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loss prevention system including a sensor apparatus within the loss prevention system, the sensor apparatus being configured to detect an anomalous event and provide a signal; and a group of point-of-sale terminals, wherein at least one point-of-sale terminal from the group of point-of-sale terminals is configured to receive the signal; determine that the at least one...