ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,990, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corp. (Tokyo).
"Auditing purchasing system" was invented by Susan W. Brosnan (Raleigh, N.C.), Jessica Snead (Cary, N.C.), Patricia S. Hogan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Daniel R. Goins (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for auditing purchases are provided. An item for purchase is scanned to determine a first identity of the item. The scanned item is added to a transaction. A first image of the scanned item is captured using a first camera. A second identity of the scanned item from the first image is determined using a trained machine ...