US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Dec. 30 for "Reconfiguring self-checkout kiosks based on attendant availability" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,632, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Reconfiguring self-checkout kiosks based on attendant availability" was invented by Johanna E. Hinkle (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to reconfigure self-checkout kiosks based on attendant availability. A first transaction is processed based on an indication of current availability, at a first point in time, of one or more attendants for a physical area associated with a self-checkout kiosk. After processing the first transaction, an indication of current availability, at a second point in time, of the one or mo...