US Patent Issued to Target Brands on March 4 for "Identifying scanning motions during checkout using overhead cameras" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,305, issued on March 4, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Identifying scanning motions during checkout using overhead cameras" was invented by Christopher Brakob (Minneapolis) and Ethan Sommer (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for determining whether a scanning motion occurred during a checkout process. The system includes a checkout lane having a scanning area that receives products to be purchased by a user, scanning devices, a point of sale (POS) terminal that identifies a product based on a scan, using the scanning devices, of a product identifier for the product...