US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Dec. 9 for "Computer-vision based detection of scams at physical point of sale terminals" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,882, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Computer-vision based detection of scams at physical point of sale terminals" was invented by Ethan Sommer (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for detecting a scam attempt in a physical retail environment. A system can include a camera that captures image data of a checkout area, a cash register that generates event data during a checkout process, and an edge computing device that accesses scam detection criteria identifying combinations of visual and event features corresponding to checkout scams, receive the image data...