US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for handling item pickup" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,733, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for handling item pickup" was invented by Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.), J. Wacho Slaughter (Raleigh, N.C.), Yevgeni Tsirulnik (Frisco, Texas), John Pistone (Cary, N.C.) and James L. Frank (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for holding or storing items. The system includes a pad, a weight sensor, a shape sensor, a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The weight sensor detects a weight of an item when the item is positioned on the pad....