US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Aug. 5 for "Object classification at point of sale" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,770, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Object classification at point of sale" was invented by Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.) and Charles R. Kirk (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of object classification at point of sale are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS system having processing circuitry operationally coupled to a transducer operable to radiate a pressure wave and a sensor operable to sense a pressure wave. Further, the transducer and the sensor are positioned on or about the POS system so that a field of r...