US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Dec. 30 for "Radio frequency identification (RFID) self-checkout (SCO) station" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,631, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Radio frequency identification (RFID) self-checkout (SCO) station" was invented by Timothy W. Crockett (Raleigh, N.C.), Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.), David John Steiner (Durham, N.C.) and Kimberly Wood (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enabled Self-Checkout (SCO) station includes an RF antenna that emits RF energy, such as RFID interrogation signals, through a variable aperture of an aperture plate into a scan zone. The size of the scan zone is selectively varied by electrically modify...