US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings on Aug. 5 for "Method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for frictionless shopping using emitted light signals" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,487, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for frictionless shopping using emitted light signals" was invented by James L. Frank (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing a frictionless shopping experience. The method includes detecting that an item was removed from a first area and detecting, by a camera, a light signal emitted from a cart. The method also includes identifying the cart based on the light signal and determining, based on the identified cart,...