US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE on March 25 for "Self configuring guidance for self-checkout systems" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,717, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE (Durham, N.C.).

"Self configuring guidance for self-checkout systems" was invented by Christopher J. Nack (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe techniques for identifying whether a POS system is in a right-handed configuration or left-handed configuration and then updating a software application in response. Embodiments herein describe using images captured of the POS system to determine its physical configuration and then updating a software application so it, for example, provides information to the customer based on the correct confi...