ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,938, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Point-of-sale (POS) operation system" was invented by Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert Andrew Myers (Cary, N.C.), Scott Graham (Oxford, N.C.), William Laird Dungan (Cary, N.C.) and Timothy W. Crockett (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-checkout (SCO) terminal in a retail store controls banks of lights to communicate context information to a customer in order to better inform them about various events. The context information may be related to a predetermined event, such as a self-checkout process or an emergency...