US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Dec. 9 for "Self-checkout security violation validation control" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,873, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Self-checkout security violation validation control" was invented by Johanna Hinkle (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of controlling self-checkout security validation are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a first network node operably coupled over a network to a second network node having a sensing device operable to sense self-checkout information associated with self-checkout of an item by the second network node. Further, the second network node is operable to determine tha...