US Patent Issued to TARGET BRANDS on Aug. 26 for "Identifying barcode-to-product mismatches using point of sale devices and overhead cameras" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,206, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TARGET BRANDS INC. (Minneapolis).

"Identifying barcode-to-product mismatches using point of sale devices and overhead cameras" was invented by Christopher Brakob (Minneapolis) and Ethan Sommer (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for determining whether an unknown product matches a scanned barcode during checkout. The system includes a checkout lane having a flatbed scanning area with scanning devices and a point of sale (POS) terminal that scans a product identifier of an unknown product, identifies a product associated with the scanned product identifi...